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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2007.0970 -- [Solaris]
A Security Vulnerability Resulting From Solaris 10 fcp(7D) and devfs(7FS)
Interaction May Allow Certain File Operations to Cause a System Hang
3 December 2007
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: Fibre Channel Protocol driver
Devices File System
Publisher: Sun Microsystems
Operating System: Solaris 10
Impact: Denial of Service
Access: Existing Account
Original Bulletin:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/printfriendly.do?assetkey=1-26-102947-1
Comment: This vulnerability does not impact Solaris 8 or 9.
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Sun(sm) Alert Notification
* Sun Alert ID: 102947
* Synopsis: A Security Vulnerability Resulting From Solaris 10
fcp(7D) and devfs(7FS) Interaction May Allow Certain File
Operations to Cause a System Hang
* Category: Security
* Product: Solaris 10 Operating System
* BugIDs: 6526639
* Avoidance: Patch
* State: Resolved
* Date Released: 29-Nov-2007
* Date Closed: 29-Nov-2007
* Date Modified:
1. Impact
A security vulnerability with Fibre Channel Protocol driver (fcp(7D))
and Devices File System (devfs(7FS)) in Solaris 10 may allow a local
unprivileged user to cause commands such as cfgadm(1M) or format(1M)
to hang when run, or cause the system as a whole to hang. This is a
type of denial of service (DoS) to the system.
Note: This issue may also occur accidentally and not as a result of a
Denial of Service attempt.
2. Contributing Factors
This issue can occur in the following releases:
SPARC Platform
* Solaris 10 without patch 128491-01
x86 Platform
* Solaris 10 without patch 128492-01
Note 1: Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 are not impacted by this issue.
Note 2: This issue is due to a race condition between the Fibre
Channel protocol driver (fcp(7D)) and the devfs(7FS) file system. When
Solaris 10 first shipped, this condition was very unlikely to be seen
and no occurrences were reported. However, the fibre channel device
driver patch 119130-25 for SPARC systems and patch 119131-25 for
x86 systems, introduces a retry mechanism in the driver which makes
this issue more likely to occur.
A system is only vulnerable to this issue if it is using fibre-channel
attached storage which is managed by Sun's SAN Foundation Software
(SFS) fibre channel stack using the fp(7d) driver.
To determine if the fp(7d) driver is being used to manage
fibre-channel attached storage, the following command can be used:
$ egrep "/fp@.*/" /etc/path_to_inst|head -1
"/pci@8,600000/SUNW,qlc@2/fp@0,0/ssd@w2100002037f3fbe1,0" 3 "ssd"
\_ fp driver is present in the device path
If no output is produced from the above command, the system is not
vulnerable to this issue.
3. Symptoms
If the described issue occurs, commands such as cfgadm(1M) and
format(1M) may hang indefinitely and attempts to kill them will fail.
Alternatively, the system may completely hang.
4. Relief/Workaround
There is no workaround for this issue.
5. Resolution
This issue is addressed in the following releases:
SPARC Platform
* Solaris 10 with patch 128491-01 or later
x86 Platform
* Solaris 10 with patch 128492-01 or later
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