Technical Description

Two vulnerabilities have been identified in Sun Solaris, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service or compromise a vulnerable system.

The first issue is caused by an error in the "rpc.metad" daemon when processing malformed requests, which could be exploited by attackers to crash an affected daemon, creating a denial of service condition.

The second vulnerability is caused by an input validation error in "rpc.ypupdated" (if started with the "-i" option) when handling map names, which could be exploited by remote attackers to inject and execute arbitrary codmmands with "root" privileges.

Affected Products

Sun Solaris 10
Sun Solaris 9
Sun Solaris 8

Solution

Sun Solaris 8 (SPARC) - Apply patch 138885-01 or later
Sun Solaris 9 (SPARC) - Apply patch 138575-01 or later
Sun Solaris 10 (SPARC) - Apply patch 139481-01 or later
OpenSolaris - Upgrade to build snv_90 or later

Sun Solaris 8 (x86) - Apply patch 138886-01 or later
Sun Solaris 9 (x86) - Apply patch 138576-01 or later
Sun Solaris 10 (x86) - Apply patch 139482-01 or later
OpenSolaris - Upgrade to build snv_90 or later

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0918
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-238365-1

Credits

Vulnerabilities reported by Kingcope.

ChangeLog

2008-03-18 : Initial release
2008-03-20 : Updated Advisory
2008-12-09 : Updated Solution

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