Note: This is an archival copy of Security Sun Alert 239785 as previously published on http://sunsolve.sun.com. Latest version of this security advisory is available from http://support.oracle.com as Sun Alert 1019452.1. |
Category Security Release Phase Resolved 6707092 Product Solaris 10 Operating System OpenSolaris Date of Workaround Release 17-Jul-2008 Date of Resolved Release 30-Jul-2008 Security Vulnerability in the System Management Agent (SMA) SNMP daemon (snmpd(1M)) 1. Impact A security vulnerability in the System Management Agent (SMA) SNMP daemon (snmpd(1M)) that ships with Solaris may allow a local or remote unprivileged user to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the SNMP daemon, or crash the SNMP daemon, which is a type of Denial of Service (DoS). This issue is also described in the following document: CVE-2008-2292 at http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2292
2. Contributing Factors This issue can occur in the following releases: SPARC Platform:
x86 Platform:
Notes: 1. Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 do not ship with the Net-SNMP software and therefore are not impacted by this issue. 2. The Solaris 10 patches which address this vulnerability do not increment the version of Net-SNMP. The version of Net-SNMP supplied with the patches will still be reported as 5.0.9. 3. This issue only affects systems which have the SUNWsmagt package installed. To determine if the SUNWsmagt package is installed on the system, the following command can be run: $ pkginfo -l SUNWsmagt 4. Only OpenSolaris installations including the affected binary listed below are affected by this issue: /usr/sfw/lib/libnetsnmp.so.5.0.9
5. OpenSolaris distributions may include additional bug fixes above and beyond the build from which it was derived. The base build can be derived as follows: $ uname -a 3. Symptoms There are no predictable symptoms that would indicate that the above issue is being exploited. 4. Workaround To prevent this issue from occurring until the system is upgraded or a patch can be applied, the SMA service can be disabled on a system by running the following command as the root user on Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris releases: # svcadm disable svc:/application/management/sma:default 5. Resolution SPARC Platform:
x86 Platform:
Modification History 30-Jul-2008: Updated Contributing Factors and Resolution sections, now Resolved References120272-21120273-23 Attachments This solution has no attachment |
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