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Article ID : 1019934.1
Article Type : Sun Alerts (SURE)
Last reviewed : 2009-01-12
Audience : PUBLIC
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Security Vulnerabilities in the Solaris lpadmin(1M) and ppdmgr(1M) Utilities May Lead to a Denial of Service (DoS) Condition



Category
Security

Release Phase
Resolved

Bug Id
6653471, 6655640

Product
Solaris 10 Operating System
OpenSolaris

Date of Resolved Release
13-Jan-2009

Security Vulnerabilities in the Solaris lpadmin(1M) and ppdmgr(1M) Utilities May Lead to a Denial of Service (DoS) Condition

1. Impact

Security vulnerabilities in the Solaris lpadmin(1M) and the ppdmgr(1M) print utilities may, under specific circumstances, allow local unprivileged users to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) to certain system services or to the system as a whole.

Sun acknowledges with thanks, Mike Gerdts for bringing these issues to our attention.

2. Contributing Factors

This issue can occur in the following releases:

SPARC Platform
  • Solaris 10 with patch 127127-11 and without patch 139390-01
  • OpenSolaris based upon builds snv_61 through snv_106
x86 Platform
  • Solaris 10 with patch 127128-11 and without patch 139391-01
  • OpenSolaris based upon builds snv_61 through snv_106
Notes:

1. Solaris 8 and 9 are not impacted by these issues.

2. Only OpenSolaris installations including the following affected executable scripts are impacted by this issue:

/usr/sbin/lpadmin
/usr/sbin/ppdmgr

3. OpenSolaris distributions may include additional bug fixes above and beyond the base build from which it was derived. The base build can be derived as follows:
$ uname -v
snv_105

3. Symptoms

There are no predictable symptoms to indicate these issues have been exploited to lead to a Denial of Service (DoS) condition.

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 10 with patch 139390-01 or later
  • OpenSolaris based upon builds snv_107 or later
x86 Platform
  • Solaris 10 with patch 139391-01 or later
  • OpenSolaris based upon builds snv_107 or later

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References

139390-01
139391-01







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