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Posted on 03 November 2008
Sun AlertsWeek of 26-Oct-2008 to 01-Nov-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
(Total Workaround: 4)
Sun Alert ID: 244446
Title: Restart of VTL Services May be Required After Daylight
Saving Time (DST) Change
Product: Sun StorageTek VTL1000, Sun StorageTek VTL 2000, Sun
StorageTek VTL 3000
Category: Availability
Release Phase: Workaround
Workaround Date: 27-Oct-2008
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Sun Alert ID: 244466
Title: Solaris 9 ldap(1) Patches May Cause Attempts to Login
Using dtlogin(1X) to Fail
Product: Solaris 9 Operating System
Category: Availability
Release Phase: Workaround
Workaround Date: 27-Oct-2008
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Sun Alert ID: 244606
Title: Solaris 10 SPARC Kernel patch 137111-01 or Later
Enforces Mutex Alignment Rules and may Cause Some
Applications to Fail
Product: Solaris 10 Operating System, OpenSolaris
Category: Availability
Release Phase: Workaround
Workaround Date: 28-Oct-2008
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Sun Alert ID: 244646
Title: Installing Certain Kernel Patches may Change the
Behavior of nanosleep(3RT)
Product: Solaris 9 Operating System, Solaris 10 Operating System,
OpenSolaris
Category: Availability
Release Phase: Workaround
Workaround Date: 29-Oct-2008
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New Resolved Sun Alert Notifications
(Total Resolved: 2)
Sun Alert ID: 201337 Previous ID: 103056
Title: Array Firmware 3.2.0 through 3.2.6 May Cause Parity
Mismatch on RAID 5 Volumes After Disk Replacement
Product: Sun StorageTek T3+ Array, Sun StorageTek 6120 Array, Sun
StorageTek 6320 System, Sun StorageTek 6020 Array, Sun
StorageTek 6920 System
Category: Availability
Release Phase: Resolved
Resolved Date: 27-Oct-2008
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Sun Alert ID: 243986
Title: Sun Cluster Resource "HAstoragePlus" May Fail if Veritas
Volume Manager Patch 124361-06 is Installed
Product: Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0 Software
Category: Availability
Release Phase: Resolved
Resolved Date: 28-Oct-2008
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Updated Sun Alert Notifications
(Total Updated: 2)
Sun Alert ID: 200412 Previous ID: 102713
Title: A Security Vulnerability in Solaris libnsl(3LIB) may
lead to a Denial of Service (DoS) to the rpcbind(1M)
Service
Product: Solaris 9 Operating System, Solaris 8 Operating System
Category: Security
Release Phase: Resolved
Resolved Date: 09-Jan-2007
Last Updated: 29-Oct-2008
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Sun Alert ID: 234461 Previous ID: 201521
Title: Solaris Daylight Saving Time (DST) Update (Aug 2008, Oct
2008)
Product: Solaris 8 Operating System, Solaris 9 Operating System,
Solaris 10 Operating System
Category: Availability
Release Phase: Resolved
Resolved Date: 07-Mar-2008
Last Updated: 29-Oct-2008
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