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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 =========================================================================== AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution ESB-2009.0055 -- [Solaris] Security Vulnerabilities in the Solaris lpadmin(1M) and ppdmgr(1M) Utilities May Lead to a Denial of Service (DoS) Condition 21 January 2009 =========================================================================== AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary --------------------------------- Product: Solaris 10 OpenSolaris Publisher: Sun Microsystems Operating System: Solaris OpenSolaris Impact: Denial of Service Access: Existing Account CVE Names: CVE-2009-0167 CVE-2009-0168 Original Bulletin: http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/printfriendly.do?assetkey=1-66-249306-1 Revision History: January 21 2009: Added CVEs January 15 2009: Initial Release - --------------------------BEGIN INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- Solution Type: Sun Alert Solution 249306 : Security Vulnerabilities in the Solaris lpadmin(1M) and ppdmgr(1M) Utilities May Lead to a Denial of Service (DoS) Condition Bug ID: 6653471, 6655640 Product Solaris 10 Operating System OpenSolaris Date of Resolved Release: 13-Jan-2009 SA Document Body Security Vulnerabilities in the Solaris lpadmin(1M) and ppdmgr(1M) Utilities May Lead to a Denial of Service (DoS) Condition 1. Impact Security vulnerabilities in the Solaris lpadmin(1M) and the ppdmgr(1M) print utilities may, under specific circumstances, allow local unprivileged users to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) to certain system services or to the system as a whole. Sun acknowledges with thanks, Mike Gerdts for bringing these issues to our attention. 2. Contributing Factors This issue can occur in the following releases: SPARC Platform * Solaris 10 with patch 127127-11 and without patch 139390-01 * OpenSolaris based upon builds snv_61 through snv_106 x86 Platform * Solaris 10 with patch 127128-11 and without patch 139391-01 * OpenSolaris based upon builds snv_61 through snv_106 Notes: 1. Solaris 8 and 9 are not impacted by these issues. 2. Only OpenSolaris installations including the following affected executable scripts are impacted by this issue: /usr/sbin/lpadmin /usr/sbin/ppdmgr 3. OpenSolaris distributions may include additional bug fixes above and beyond the base build from which it was derived. The base build can be derived as follows: $ uname -v snv_105 3. Symptoms There are no predictable symptoms to indicate these issues have been exploited to lead to a Denial of Service (DoS) condition. 4. Workaround There is no workaround for this issue. Please see the Resolution section below. 5. Resolution This issue is addressed in the following releases: SPARC Platform * Solaris 10 with patch 139390-01 or later * OpenSolaris based upon builds snv_107 or later x86 Platform * Solaris 10 with patch 139391-01 or later * OpenSolaris based upon builds snv_107 or later For more information on Security Sun Alerts, see Technical Instruction ID 213557. This Sun Alert notification is being provided to you on an "AS IS" basis. This Sun Alert notification may contain information provided by third parties. 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