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Posted on 27 May 2008
Sun AlertsWeek of 18-May-2008 to 24-May-2008
Welcome to the Sun Alert Weekly Summary Report, the newsletter
that provides you with a weekly listing of newly released and
updated Sun Alert Notifications. It is being distributed
to inform you about critical hardware and software issues that
could impact the availability, security, and data integrity of
your computing environment.
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ISSUE HIGHLIGHTS
* Newly Released Sun Alerts for 3 Release Phases:
Preliminary, Workaround and Resolved
* NEW Information on the availability of the Sun Alert Patch Report
The Patch Report is not this report but a list of patches
that are in the Resolution section of a Sun Alert (if applicable) .
This report is no longer available on SunSolve, however
a new TEXT version is available at:
https://supportuploads.sun.com/download?directory=downloads&file=SApatches%2dpub%2etxt
or go to http://supportfiles.sun.com/download and enter the following
file name, SApatches-pub.txt, from the directory named "downloads".
Please reply to http://sun.com/newsletters/ with comments on this
new alternative Sun Alert Patch report.
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New Preliminary Sun Alert Notifications
None
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New Workaround Sun Alert Notifications
(Total Workaround: 1)
Sun Alert ID: 235681
Title: With Certain Solaris 10 patches installed, svccfg(1M)
may remove external dependencies and leave the system
unbootable
Product: Solaris 10 Operating System
Category: Availability
Release Phase: Workaround
Workaround Date: 20-May-2008
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http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-235681-1
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SunSpectrum Member Support Center at www.sun.com/support and
search for the Sun Alert ID above.
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New Resolved Sun Alert Notifications
(Total Resolved: 6)
Sun Alert ID: 236481
Title: Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in the Sun Java
System Web Server Advanced Search Mechanism
Product: Sun Java System Web Server 6.1, Sun Java System Web
Server 7.0
Category: Security
Release Phase: Resolved
Resolved Date: 23-May-2008
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http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-236481-1
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SunSpectrum Member Support Center at www.sun.com/support and
search for the Sun Alert ID above.
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Sun Alert ID: 237324
Title: Solaris 10 patches 128306-03 and 128307-03 may disable
SVM Mirrored Root Systems
Product: Solaris 10 Operating System
Category: Availability
Release Phase: Resolved
Resolved Date: 21-May-2008
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http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-237324-1
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search for the Sun Alert ID above.
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Sun Alert ID: 237464
Title: Solaris 10 iscsiadm(1M) may hang in the presence of
other Applications that use System V Semaphores
Product: Solaris 10 Operating System
Category: Availability
Release Phase: Resolved
Resolved Date: 23-May-2008
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search for the Sun Alert ID above.
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Sun Alert ID: 237584
Title: A Security Vulnerability in the Solaris 10 STREAMS
Administrative Driver ("sad") May Allow a Denial of
Service (System panic)
Product: Solaris 10 Operating System
Category: Security
Release Phase: Resolved
Resolved Date: 20-May-2008
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Sun Alert ID: 237964
Title: Solaris Cluster 3.2 Node may panic during scshutdown(1M)
procedure
Product: Solaris Cluster 3.2
Category: Availability
Release Phase: Resolved
Resolved Date: 19-May-2008
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Sun Alert ID: 238084
Title: E6900/E4900/E2900, V1280, Netra 1280 and Sun Fire
4800/6800 Systems may fail to Auto-boot properly
Product: E6900, E4900, E2900, V1280, Netra 1280, Sun Fire 4800,
Sun Fire 6800
Category: Availability
Release Phase: Resolved
Resolved Date: 22-May-2008
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Updated Sun Alert Notifications
(Total Updated: 4)
Sun Alert ID: 200871 Previous ID: 102987
Title: libpng(3) Contains a Denial of Service (DoS)
Vulnerability
Product: Solaris 9 Operating System, Solaris 10 Operating System,
Solaris 8 Operating System
Category: Security
Release Phase: Workaround
Workaround Date: 28-Jun-2007
Last Updated: 23-May-2008
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Sun Alert ID: 236321
Title: A Security Vulnerability in Solaris 10 Involving the
SCTP Protocol May Result in a Panic and Denial of
Service (DoS)
Product: Solaris 10 Operating System
Category: Security
Release Phase: Resolved
Resolved Date: 02-May-2008
Last Updated: 23-May-2008
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http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-236321-1
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Sun Alert ID: 237444
Title: Security Vulnerability in Solaris SSH May Allow
Unauthorized Access to X11 Sessions
Product: Solaris 9 Operating System, Solaris 10 Operating System
Category: Security
Release Phase: Workaround
Workaround Date: 05-May-2008
Last Updated: 23-May-2008
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http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-237444-1
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Sun Alert ID: 237505
Title: Adding a host to a SVM Metaset deletes the Set Name link
Product: Solaris Volume Manager, Solaris 10 Operating System
Category: Availability
Release Phase: Workaround
Workaround Date: 09-May-2008
Last Updated: 22-May-2008
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http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-237505-1
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search for the Sun Alert ID above.
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* New OSC wiki http://wikis.sun.com/display/osc
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