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Article ID : 1001015.1
Article Type : Sun Alerts (SURE)
Last reviewed : 2008-05-29
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A Security Vulnerability in the Sun Cluster Global File System

Category
Security

Release Phase
Resolved

Bug Id
6312633

Product
Sun Cluster 3.1

Date of Resolved Release
30-May-2008

A Security Vulnerability in the Sun Cluster Global File System (see below for details)

1. Impact

On a Sun Cluster File System, one or both of the following issues may occur:

1. An unprivileged local user may be able to read data from deleted files owned by other users.

2. Data integrity issues may occur on certain applications.


2. Contributing Factors

These issues can occur in the following releases:

SPARC Platform

  • Sun Cluster 3.1 (for Solaris 8) without patch 117950-18
  • Sun Cluster 3.1 (for Solaris 9) without patch 117949-18
  • Sun Cluster 3.1 (for Solaris 10) without patch 120500-02

x86 Platform

  • Sun Cluster 3.1 (for Solaris 9) without patch 117909-18
  • Sun Cluster 3.1 (for Solaris 10) without patch 120501-02

Note: Sun Cluster 3.0 is not vulnerable to this issue.

The described issues only occur on global filesystems mounted on top of ufs filesystems. These issues have not been seen on global filesystems mounted on top of vxfs filesystems.


3. Symptoms

There are no reliable symptoms that would indicate issue 1 described above has been exploited.

If issue 2 described above occurs, files in global filesystems may contain garbage data. This may cause unpredictable results following file read operations.


4. Workaround

There is no workaround. Please see the "Resolution" section below.


5. Resolution

This issue is addressed in the following releases:

SPARC Platform

  • Sun Cluster 3.1 (for Solaris 8) with patch 117950-18 or later
  • Sun Cluster 3.1 (for Solaris 9) with patch 117949-18 or later
  • Sun Cluster 3.1 (for Solaris 10) with patch 120500-02 or later

x86 Platform

  • Sun Cluster 3.1 (for Solaris 9) with patch 117909-18 or later
  • Sun Cluster 3.1 (for Solaris 10) with patch 120501-02 or later

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References

117950-18
117949-18
120500-02
117909-18
120501-02




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