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Posted on 20 October 2008
Sun AlertsWeek of 12-Oct-2008 to 18-Oct-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
* New and Updated Sun Alerts for 3 Release Phases:
Preliminary, Workaround and Resolved
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New Preliminary Sun Alert Notifications
None
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New Workaround Sun Alert Notifications
None
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New Resolved Sun Alert Notifications
(Total Resolved: 4)
Sun Alert ID: 239307
Title: Solaris Cluster 3.1 and 3.2 with a Solaris rpc.metad
Patch May Cause Cluster Node to Hang and metainit(1M)
to Fail
Product: Sun Cluster 3.1, Solaris Cluster 3.2
Category: Availability
Release Phase: Resolved
Resolved Date: 17-Oct-2008
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Sun Alert ID: 242786
Title: Failure to Run Clock Thread May Lead to a System Hang
Product: Solaris 8 Operating System, Solaris 9 Operating System,
Solaris 10 Operating System, OpenSolaris
Category: Availability
Release Phase: Resolved
Resolved Date: 14-Oct-2008
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Sun Alert ID: 243446
Title: Fiber Optic Link Card for Enterprise
M4000/M5000/M8000/M9000 Systems and Expansion I/O Unit
Ceases to Operate After 500 Days
Product: Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000, Sun SPARC Enterprise M5000,
Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000, Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000,
Sun External I/O Expansion Unit
Category: Availability
Release Phase: Resolved
Resolved Date: 14-Oct-2008
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Sun Alert ID: 243626
Title: Running Disk Test with SunVTS 7.0 Ops3 (with patch
138504-03) on SPARC Enterprise Mx000 Systems May Result
In Data Integrity Issues
Product: Solaris 10 Operating System, SunVTS 7.0
Category: Data Loss, Availability
Release Phase: Resolved
Resolved Date: 14-Oct-2008
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Updated Sun Alert Notifications
(Total Updated: 2)
Sun Alert ID: 200871 Previous ID: 102987
Title: libpng(3) Contains a Denial of Service (DoS)
Vulnerability
Product: Solaris 8 Operating System, Solaris 9 Operating System,
Solaris 10 Operating System
Category: Security
Release Phase: Workaround
Workaround Date: 28-Jun-2007
Last Updated: 16-Oct-2008
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Sun Alert ID: 242106
Title: On Certain Sun Enterprise, Blade, and Netra Servers, TOD
may Advance as Much As One Second Every Fifteen Minutes
Product: Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 Server, Sun SPARC Enterprise
T5220 Server, Sun SPARC Enterprise T5140 Server, Sun
SPARC Enterprise T5240 Server, Sun Blade T6320 Server
Module, Sun Netra CP3260 ATCA Blade Server, Sun Netra
T5220 Server
Category: Availability, Data Loss
Release Phase: Resolved
Resolved Date: 17-Sep-2008
Last Updated: 15-Oct-2008
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