Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Sun Cluster for Solaris, which could be exploited by local attackers to bypass security restrictions. This issue is caused by an unspecified error in the Sun Cluster Global File System, which could allow an unprivileged local user to read data from deleted files owned by other users, or cause data integrity issues on certain applications.

Affected Products

Sun Cluster version 3.1 for Solaris

Solution

Sun Cluster 3.1 (for Solaris 8 SPARC) - Apply patch 117950-18 or later
Sun Cluster 3.1 (for Solaris 9 SPARC) - Apply patch 117949-18 or later
Sun Cluster 3.1 (for Solaris 10 SPARC) - Apply patch 120500-02 or later

Sun Cluster 3.1 (for Solaris 9 x86) - Apply patch 117909-18 or later
Sun Cluster 3.1 (for Solaris 10 x86) - Apply patch 120501-02 or later

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1713
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-201341-1

Credits

Vulnerability reported by the vendor.

ChangeLog

2008-06-02 : Initial release

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