Category
Security
Release Phase
Resolved
Bug Id
6748600
ProductSolaris 8 Operating System
Solaris 9 Operating System
Solaris 10 Operating System
OpenSolaris
Date of Resolved Release12-Dec-2008
A security vulnerability in the X Inter Client Exchange library (libICE):
1. Impact
A security vulnerability in the X Inter Client Exchange library
(libICE) may allow a local or remote unprivileged user to crash an
application that dynamically links to libICE. The ability to
crash an application is a type of Denial of Service (DoS).
2. Contributing Factors
This issue can occur in the following releases:
SPARC Platform
- Solaris 8 without patch 119067-11
- Solaris 9 without patch 112785-65
- Solaris 10 without patch 119059-46
x86 Platform
- Solaris 8 without patch 119068-11
- Solaris 9 without patch 112786-54
- Solaris 10 without patch 119060-45
- OpenSolaris based upon builds snv_01 through snv_84
Note 1: OpenSolaris
distributions may include additional bug fixes above and beyond the
build from which it was derived.
To determine the base build of
OpenSolaris, the following command
can be used:
$ uname -v
snv_86
Note
2: Only OpenSolaris installations including the affected library
"/usr/lib/libICE.so.6" or the corresponding 64-bit library, "/usr/lib/amd64/libICE.so.6" are impacted by this issue.
To determine if an application is linked with the libICE library, the
ldd(1) utility can be utilized:
$ ldd /usr/openwin/bin/xset | grep libICE
libICE.so.6 => /usr/openwin/lib/libICE.so.6
Note 3: Applications that
don't list the libICE library as a dynamic dependency in the ldd(1)
output may open the library during process execution using functions
such as dlopen(3C) and therefore may still be impacted.
3. Symptoms
If the described issue occurs, the application linked to the libICE
library will exit. A Segmentation Fault error message and core(4) file
may be generated. A typical stack trace will be similar to the
following:
fed37065 _IceRead (8196cf0, 8, 81aca00) + ad
fed374e6 IceProcessMessages (8196cf0, 0, 0) + 42
A number of applications that are comprised of the GNOME desktop
environment dynamically link with libICE. This may cause users to
be logged out of the GNOME desktop environment with a dialog message
stating that the Gnome session manager has crashed. When this
dialog box is closed, the session exits.
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 8 with patch 119067-11 or later
- Solaris 9 with patch 112785-65 or later
- Solaris 10 with patch 119059-46 or later
x86 Platform
- Solaris 8 with patch 119068-11 or later
- Solaris 9 with patch 112786-54 or later
- Solaris 10 with patch 119060-45 or later
- OpenSolaris based upon builds snv_85 or later
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on Security Sun Alerts, see 1009886.1.
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119067-11
119068-11
112785-65
112786-54
119059-46
119060-45
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