Bug Id
6884801

Product
Solaris 9 Operating System
Solaris 10 Operating System
OpenSolaris

Date of Workaround Release
02-Dec-2009

Date of Resolved Release
19-Mar-2010

A security vulnerability in the wget(1) command shipped with Solaris:

1. Impact

A security vulnerability in the wget(1) command shipped with Solaris may allow a local or remote unprivileged user who provides a specially crafted certificate signed by a legitimate Certification Authority to intercept encrypted HTTP (HTTPS) communication between the wget(1) client and a web server using a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack.

Additional information regarding this issue is available at:

• CVE-2009-3490 at: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3490
  

2. Contributing Factors

This issue can occur in the following releases:

SPARC Platform

• Solaris 9 with patch 125326-01 and without patch 125326-02
  
• Solaris 10 without patch 125215-03
  
• OpenSolaris based upon builds snv_01 through snv_125
  

x86 Platform

• Solaris 9 with patch 125327-01 and without patch 125327-02
• Solaris 10 without patch 125216-03
  
• OpenSolaris based upon builds snv_01 through snv_125

Note 1: OpenSolaris distributions may include additional bug fixes above and beyond the build from which it was derived. To determine the base build of  OpenSolaris, the following command can be used:

    $ uname -v
    snv_86

Note 2: HTTPS protocol support for the wget(1) command in Solaris 9 was added via patches 125326-01 (SPARC) and 125327-01 (x86). Therefore, Solaris 9 is only vulnerable if one of these patches is installed.

Note 3: Solaris 8 does not include support for the wget(1) command and therefore is not impacted by this issue.

3. Symptoms

There are no predictable symptoms that would indicate the described issue has been exploited on a system.

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 9 with patch 125326-02 or later
• Solaris 10 with patch 125215-03 or later
  
• OpenSolaris based upon builds snv_126 or later
  

x86 Platform

• Solaris 9 with patch 125327-02 or later
• Solaris 10 with patch 125216-03 or later
  
• OpenSolaris based upon builds snv_126 or later

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References

125215-03
125216-03





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