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Posted on 16 March 2009
Sun AlertsWeek of 08-Mar-2009 to 14-Mar-2009
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
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New Workaround Sun Alert Notifications
(Total Workaround: 3)
Sun Alert ID: 252767
Title: A Security Vulnerability in the Solaris Kerberos PAM
Module May Allow Use of a User Specified Kerberos
Configuration File, Leading to Escalation of Privileges
Product: Sun Enterprise Authentication Mechanism 1.0.1, Solaris 9
Operating System, Solaris 10 Operating System,
OpenSolaris
Category: Security
Release Phase: Workaround
Preliminary Date: 12-Feb-2009
Workaround Date: 10-Mar-2009
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Sun Alert ID: 254408
Title: Issue With Brocade Firmware May Cause a Switch Panic
Product: Brocade 300 Switch, Brocade 48000 Director, Brocade DCX
Backbone, Brocade DCX-4S Backbone, Brocade 5100 Switch,
Brocade 5300 Switch
Category: Availability
Release Phase: Workaround
Workaround Date: 11-Mar-2009
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Sun Alert ID: 254908
Title: Memory Leak in the "rgmd" Process of Solaris Cluster 3.2
may Cause a failfast Panic
Product: Solaris Cluster 3.2
Category: Availability
Release Phase: Workaround
Workaround Date: 13-Mar-2009
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New Resolved Sun Alert Notifications
(Total Resolved: 6)
Sun Alert ID: 242486
Title: Multiple Security Issues in the Doors Kernel
Functionality
Product: Solaris 8 Operating System, Solaris 9 Operating System,
Solaris 10 Operating System, OpenSolaris
Category: Security
Release Phase: Resolved
Resolved Date: 10-Mar-2009
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Sun Alert ID: 250306
Title: A Security Vulnerability in the Solaris NFS Daemon
(nfsd(1M)) May Allow Unauthorized Access to Data
Product: Solaris 10 Operating System, OpenSolaris
Category: Security
Release Phase: Resolved
Resolved Date: 09-Mar-2009
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Sun Alert ID: 250846
Title: Security Vulnerability in Solaris BIND named(1M) due to
Incorrect DNSSEC Signature Verification
Product: Solaris 9 Operating System, Solaris 10 Operating System,
OpenSolaris
Category: Security
Release Phase: Resolved
Resolved Date: 13-Mar-2009
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Sun Alert ID: 253568
Title: Security Vulnerability in the Solaris keysock Kernel
Module may Lead to a System Panic
Product: Solaris 10 Operating System, OpenSolaris
Category: Security
Release Phase: Resolved
Resolved Date: 13-Mar-2009
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Sun Alert ID: 253588
Title: Security Vulnerability in the Solaris NFS Server
Security Modes (nfssec(5)) may Lead to Unauthorized
Access to Shared Resources
Product: Solaris 10 Operating System, OpenSolaris
Category: Security
Release Phase: Resolved
Resolved Date: 09-Mar-2009
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Sun Alert ID: 254568
Title: Security Vulnerability in Sun xVM VirtualBox for the
Linux Platform may Lead to Escalation of Privileges
Product: Sun xVM VirtualBox 2.0, Sun xVM VirtualBox 2.1
Category: Security
Release Phase: Resolved
Resolved Date: 10-Mar-2009
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Updated Sun Alert Notifications
(Total Updated: 1)
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
Last Updated: 09-Mar-2009
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