Bug Id
6810281

Product
Solaris Cluster 3.2

Date of Resolved Release
22-Sep-2009

A security vulnerability in the Solaris Cluster 3.2 configuration utility (see clsetup(1CL)):

1. Impact

A security vulnerability in the Solaris Cluster 3.2 configuration utility (see clsetup(1CL)) may allow local unprivileged users to gain elevated privileges and potentially execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the root user.

Sun acknowledges with thanks, Martin Carpenter from Citco (www.citco.com) for bringing this issue to our attention.

2. Contributing Factors

This issue can occur in the following releases:

SPARC Platform

• Solaris Cluster 3.2 (for Solaris 9) without patch 126105-34
• Solaris Cluster 3.2 (for Solaris 10) without patch 126106-34
  

x86 Platform

• Solaris Cluster 3.2 (for Solaris 10) without patch 126107-34

Note: Sun Cluster 3.0 and 3.1 are not impacted by this issue.

Note 2: Sun Cluster 3.2 is not supported on Solaris 9 x86 platform.

3. Symptoms

There are no predictable symptoms to indicate that the described issue has been exploited to gain elevated privileges on the affected host.

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 Cluster 3.2 (for Solaris 9) with patch 126105-34 or later
  
• Solaris Cluster 3.2 (for Solaris 10) with patch 126106-34 or later
  

x86 Platform

• Solaris Cluster 3.2 (for Solaris 10) with patch 126107-34 or later
  

For more information on Security Sun Alerts, see  1009886.1.

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References

126105-34
126106-34
126107-34





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