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Posted on 04 May 2009
Sun AlertsWeek of 26-Apr-2009 to 02-May-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: 2)
Sun Alert ID: 257708
Title: Security Vulnerabilities in DTrace (dtrace(1M)) ioctl(2)
Handlers May Lead to a Denial of Service (DoS)
Condition
Product: Solaris 10 Operating System, OpenSolaris
Category: Security
Release Phase: Workaround
Workaround Date: 27-Apr-2009
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Sun Alert ID: 258048
Title: A Security Vulnerability in the ASN.1 Handling in
Solaris OpenSSL May Lead to a Denial of Service (DoS)
Condition
Product: Solaris 10 Operating System, OpenSolaris
Category: Security
Release Phase: Workaround
Workaround Date: 29-Apr-2009
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New Resolved Sun Alert Notifications
(Total Resolved: 4)
Sun Alert ID: 241646
Title: Security Vulnerability in GNU tar May Lead to Arbitrary
Code Execution or Denial of Service (DoS)
Product: Solaris 9 Operating System, Solaris 10 Operating System,
OpenSolaris
Category: Security
Release Phase: Resolved
Resolved Date: 28-Apr-2009
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Sun Alert ID: 247466
Title: The Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd(1M)) Does Not
Cache Hosts for Cluster Nodes After Installing Patch
120011-14 (SPARC) or 120012-14 (x86)
Product: Sun Cluster 3.1, Solaris Cluster 3.2
Category: Availability
Release Phase: Resolved
Resolved Date: 27-Apr-2009
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Sun Alert ID: 257448
Title: McDATA Intrepid 10000 Director Running M-EOSn v9.8.1 may
Cause a Solaris Host to Lose Connectivity
Product: McDATA Intrepid 10000 Director
Category: Availability
Release Phase: Resolved
Resolved Date: 27-Apr-2009
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Sun Alert ID: 258028
Title: Solaris 10 Systems May Panic While Running 'ifconfig
<interface> modlist'
Product: Solaris 10 Operating System, OpenSolaris
Category: Availability
Release Phase: Resolved
Resolved Date: 30-Apr-2009
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Updated Sun Alert Notifications
(Total Updated: 1 )
Sun Alert ID: 256288
Title: Sun StorageTek and Storage Arrays May Experience Data
Corruption for Volumes 2TB or Larger in Size
Product: Sun StorageTek 2510 , Sun StorageTek 2530 , Sun
StorageTek 2540 , Sun StorageTek 6140 , Sun StorageTek
6540, StorageTek Flexline 380 , Sun Storage 6580 , Sun
Storage 6780
Category: Data Loss
Release Phase: Workaround
Workaround Date: 01-Apr-2009
Last Updated: 01-May-2009
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