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Article ID : 1001126.1
Article Type : Sun Alerts (SURE)
Last reviewed : 2007-12-17
Audience : PUBLIC
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Security Vulnerability in Sun Management Center (Sun MC) May Allow Unauthorized Access to System and Data



Category
Security

Release Phase
Resolved

Product
Sun Management Center 3.6.1
Sun Management Center 3.6
Sun Management Center 3.5 Update 1

Bug Id
6562797, 6513940

Date of Resolved Release
18-DEC-2007

Impact

A default account vulnerability in the Oracle database component of Sun Management Center (Sun MC) server software may allow remote unprivileged users to gain unauthorized access to the database or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of Oracle database server. The database server runs as the unprivileged user "smcorau".


Contributing Factors

This issue can occur in the following releases:

SPARC Platform

  • Sun MC 3.5 Update 1 (for Solaris 8) without patch 118388-11
  • Sun MC 3.5 Update 1 (for Solaris 9) without patch 118389-12
  • Sun MC 3.6 (for Solaris 8) without patch 127380-01
  • Sun MC 3.6 (for Solaris 9) without patch 127381-01
  • Sun MC 3.6 (for Solaris 10) without patch 127383-01
  • Sun MC 3.6.1 (for Solaris 8) without patch 123920-04
  • Sun MC 3.6.1 (for Solaris 9) without patch 123921-04
  • Sun MC 3.6.1 (for Solaris 10) without patch 123923-04

Note 1: This issue affects systems installed with Sun Management Center (Sun MC) server software. Sun Management Center (Sun MC) can be downloaded from:

Sun MC is not bundled with Solaris.

Note 2: Sun MC server is not supported on the Solaris x86 platform.

Note 3: Sun MC 3.5 update 1 is not supported on Solaris 10.

To determine if Sun MC server is installed on a Solaris system or what version is present, the following command can be run:

    $ pkginfo -l SUNWessrv | grep VERSION
    VERSION:  3.6.1,REV=2.7.2003.08.28

If the following error message is returned, the "SUNWessrv" package and Sun MC server are not installed on the system.

    ERROR: information for "SUNWessrv" was not found

To determine if Sun MC database server is running on the system the following command can be run:

    $ ps -ef | grep 'SUNWsymon/oracle'
    smcorau 10655     1  0 19:36:36 ?  0:00 /opt/SUNWsymon/oracle/product/8.1.7/bin/tnslsnr smcdblistener -inherit

If the output shows "tnslsnr" process, then the database server is running.


Symptoms

There are no reliable symptoms that would indicate the described issue has been exploited to execute arbitrary commands on the system or if the database contents have been accessed.


Workaround

There is no workaround for this issue. Please see the Resolution section below.


Resolution

This issue is addressed in the following releases:

SPARC Platform

  • Sun MC 3.5 Update 1 (for Solaris 8) with patch 118388-11 or later
  • Sun MC 3.5 Update 1 (for Solaris 9) with patch 118389-12 or later
  • Sun MC 3.6 (for Solaris 8) with patch 127380-01 or later
  • Sun MC 3.6 (for Solaris 9) with patch 127381-01 or later
  • Sun MC 3.6 (for Solaris 10) with patch 127383-01 or later
  • Sun MC 3.6.1 (for Solaris 8) with patch 123920-04 or later
  • Sun MC 3.6.1 (for Solaris 9) with patch 123921-04 or later
  • Sun MC 3.6.1 (for Solaris 10) with patch 123923-04 or later


References

127380-01
127381-01
127383-01
118389-12
123920-04
123921-04
123923-04
118388-11




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