From secure@sunsc.eng.sun.com Thu Dec 9 16:25:33 1999 From: Sun Security Coordination Team Resent-From: Erik Parker To: CWS@sunsc.eng.sun.com Resent-To: Brian Martin Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 15:04:50 -0800 (PST) Subject: Sun Security Bulletin #00190 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- ________________________________________________________________________________ Sun Microsystems, Inc. Security Bulletin Bulletin Number: #00190 Date: December 9, 1999 Cross-Ref: ISS Security Advisory, December 9, 1999 Title: snoop ________________________________________________________________________________ The information contained in this Security Bulletin is provided "AS IS." Sun makes no warranties of any kind whatsoever with respect to the information contained in this Security Bulletin. 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If any of the above provisions are held to be in violation of applicable law, void, or unenforceable in any jurisdiction, then such provisions are waived to the extent necessary for this disclaimer to be otherwise enforceable in such jurisdiction. ________________________________________________________________________________ 1. Bulletins Topics Sun announces the release of patches for Solaris(tm) 7, 2.6, 2.5.1, 2.5, 2.4, and 2.3 (SunOS(tm) 5.7, 5.6, 5.5.1, 5.5, 5.4 and 5.3), which relate to a vulnerability with snoop. Sun recommends that you install the patches listed in section 4 immediately on systems running SunOS 5.7, 5.6, 5.5.1, 5.5, 5.4, and 5.3. 2. Who is Affected Vulnerable: SunOS 5.7, 5.7_x86, 5.6, 5.6_x86, 5.5.1, 5.5.1_x86, 5.5, 5.5_x86, 5.4, 5.4_x86, and 5.3. Not vulnerable: All other supported versions of SunOS. 3. Understanding the Vulnerability The snoop program captures packets from the network and displays their contents. A buffer overflow vulnerability has been discovered which may be exploited by a remote attacker to execute arbitrary instructions and gain root access. The buffer overflow occurs when snoop analyzes certain types of large requests to the rquotad rpc service. 4. List of Patches The following patches are available in relation to the above problem. OS Version Patch ID __________ _________ SunOS 5.7 108482-01 SunOS 5.7_x86 108483-01 SunOS 5.6 108492-01 SunOS 5.6_x86 108493-01 SunOS 5.5.1 104960-02 SunOS 5.5.1_x86 104961-02 SunOS 5.5 108501-01 SunOS 5.5_x86 108502-01 SunOS 5.4 108490-01 SunOS 5.4_x86 108491-01 SunOS 5.3 108489-01 _______________________________________________________________________________ Sun acknowledges, with thanks, Internet Security Systems (ISS) for bringing this vulnerability to our attention. _______________________________________________________________________________ APPENDICES A. 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