Note: This is an archival copy of Security Sun Alert 240327 as previously published on http://sunsolve.sun.com. Latest version of this security advisory is available from http://support.oracle.com as Sun Alert 1019510.1. |
Category Security Release Phase Resolved 6590476 Product Sun Java System Web Proxy Server 4.0 Date of Resolved Release 12-Aug-2008 Security vulnerability in the FTP subsystem of Sun Java System Web Proxy Server 4.0 1. Impact A Security vulnerability in the FTP subsystem of Sun Java System Web Proxy Server 4.0 may allow a local or remote unprivileged user to prevent the proxy server from accepting new connections, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS) to the proxy server. Sun acknowledges, with thanks, Joxean Koret for bringing this issue to our attention. 2. Contributing Factors This issues can occur in the following releases: SPARC Platform
$ <ps_install>/bin/proxy/bin/proxyd -v(Where <ps_install> is the installation directory of the Proxy Server). 3. Symptoms Should the described issue occur, Proxy server stops accepting new connections with the following error message in the proxy server instance's "access" log file: [03/Mar/2008:02:10:35] failure (32372): HTTP3069: Error accepting 4. Workaround If this issue has been exploited on a server, it may be possible to recover from the Denial of Service (DoS) condition by restarting the server. This can be done by using the following command: $<ps_install>/<ps_instance/restart
(Where <ps_install> is the installation directory of the Proxy
Server, and <ps_instance> is the Proxy Server instance directory).5. Resolution This issue is addressed in the following releases: SPARC Platform
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