[SECURITY-L] CAIS-Alerta: Vulnerabilidade no passwd do Solaris 8,9

Ter Mar 9 10:50:36 -03 2004

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From: Centro de Atendimento a Incidentes de Seguranca <cais em cais.rnp.br>
Subject: CAIS-Alerta: Vulnerabilidade no passwd do Solaris 8,9
To: rnp-alerta em cais.rnp.br, rnp-seg em cais.rnp.br
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 15:06:50 -0300 (BRST)

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Prezados,

O CAIS esta' repassando o alerta da Sun Microsystems, Sun(sm) Alert
Notification 57454: "Security Vulnerability Involving the passwd(1)
Command", que trata de uma vulnerabilidade no comando passwd que pode
permitir a um usuario local ganhar privilegios de administrador (root).

Sistemas afetados:

	. Solaris 8, plataformas X86 e Sparc
	. Solaris 9, plataformas X86 e Sparc

Correcoes disponiveis:

Recomenda-se fazer a atualizacao para as versoes disponiveis em:

. Solaris 8 Sparc
http://www.sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/findPatch.pl?patchId=108993&rev=32

. Solaris 9 Sparc
http://www.sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/findPatch.pl?patchId=113476&rev=11

. Solaris 8 X86
http://www.sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/findPatch.pl?patchId=108994&rev=32

. Solaris 9 X86
http://www.sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/findPatch.pl?patchId=114242&rev=07

Maiores informacoes:

. http://www.sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=fsalert%2F57454&zone_32=category%3Asecurity
. http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/o-088.shtml

O CAIS recomenda aos administradores manterem seus sistemas e aplicativos
sempre atualizados, de acordo com as ultimas versoes e correcoes
disponibilizadas pelos fabricantes.

Atenciosamente,

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document id 	  	Synopsis 	  	Date
57454 	  	Security Vulnerability Involving the passwd(1) Command 26 Feb 2004

Description 	Top

Sun(sm) Alert Notification

          Sun Alert ID: 57454

          Synopsis: Security Vulnerability Involving the passwd(1) Command

          Category: Security

          Product: Solaris

          BugIDs: 4793719

          Avoidance: Patch

          State: Resolved

          Date Released: 26-Feb-2004

          Date Closed: 26-Feb-2004

          Date Modified:

        1. Impact

        A local unprivileged user may be able to gain unauthorized root
privileges due to a security issue involving the passwd(1) command.

        Sun acknowledges, with thanks, Tim Wort
(Tim.Wort em InklingResearch.com) for contacting us regarding this issue.

        2. Contributing Factors

        This issue can occur in the following releases:

        SPARC Platform

          Solaris 8 with patch 108993-14 through 108993-31 and without
patch 108993-32

          Solaris 9 without patch 113476-11

        x86 Platform

          Solaris 8 with patch 108994-14 through 108994-31 and without
patch 108994-32

          Solaris 9 without patch 114242-07

        Note: Solaris 7 is not affected by this issue.

        3. Symptoms

        There are no reliable symptoms that would show the described issue
has been exploited to gain unauthorized elevated privileges to a host.

Solution Summary 	Top

4. Relief/Workaround

        There is no workaround for this issue.

        5. Resolution

        This issue is addressed in the following releases:

        SPARC Platform

          Solaris 8 with patch 108993-32 or later

          Solaris 9 with patch 113476-11 or later

        x86 Platform

          Solaris 8 with patch 108994-32 or later

          Solaris 9 with patch 114242-07 or later

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