Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Sun Solaris, which could be exploited by attackers to bypass security restrictions. This issue is caused by an unspecified error within system calls in the Kernel, which may allow two unprivileged local user processes to establish a covert communication channel bypassing system restrictions such as the multi-level security policy found in Solaris Trusted Extensions or the isolation policy implemented using zones or chroot.

Affected Products

Sun Solaris 8
Sun Solaris 9
Sun Solaris 10
Sun OpenSolaris

Solution

Sun Solaris 8 (SPARC) - Apply patch 117350-56 or later
Sun Solaris 9 (SPARC) - Apply patch 122300-30 or later
Sun Solaris 10 (SPARC) - Apply patch 137111-05 or later
Sun OpenSolaris (SPARC) - Upgrade to build snv_90 or later

Sun Solaris 8 (x86) - Apply patch 117351-56 or later
Sun Solaris 9 (x86) - Apply patch 122301-30 or later
Sun Solaris 10 (x86) - Apply patch 137112-05 or later
Sun OpenSolaris (x86) - Upgrade to build snv_90 or later

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2460
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-240706-1

ChangeLog

2008-08-29 : Initial release

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