Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Sun Solaris 10, which could be exploited by remote attackers to bypass security restrictions and compromise a vulnerable system. This issue is caused by errors in kernel patches 120011-04 or later (SPARC) and 120012-04 or later (x86) when installed on systems which are configured as NFS servers and grant root user access to one or more netgroups, which could allow remote root users on systems which are not part of the configured netgroup(s) to also have root access to files shared by the NFS server.

Affected Products

Sun Solaris 10

Solution

Sun Solaris 10 (SPARC) - Apply patch 127111-05 or later
Sun Solaris 10 (x86) - Apply patch 127954-03 or later

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4218
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103162-1

Credits

Vulnerability reported by the vendor.

ChangeLog

2007-12-14 : Initial release

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