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Posted on 27 July 2009
Sun AlertsWeek of 19-Jul-2009 to 25-Jul-2009
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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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New Preliminary Sun Alert Notifications
None
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New Workaround Sun Alert Notifications
(Total Workaround: 1)
Sun Alert ID: 264388
Title: Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 Systems may Hang After
Installing Certain Kernel Patches
Product: Solaris 8 Operating System, Solaris 9 Operating System
Category: Availability
Release Phase: Workaround
Workaround Date: 22-Jul-2009
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New Resolved Sun Alert Notifications
(Total Resolved: 6)
Sun Alert ID: 250426
Title: Shutting Down a Solaris System That Uses the New SPARC
Boot Technology May Fail if Certain Software is
Installed OR if Patches or Other Layered Software Have
Installed New Drivers
Product: Solaris 10 Operating System, OpenSolaris, Veritas
Storage Foundation 4.1 Software, Veritas Storage
Foundation 5.0 Software
Category: Availability
Release Phase: Resolved
Resolved Date: 22-Jul-2009
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Sun Alert ID: 250446
Title: During Installation of Veritas VxVM 5.0 Patches the
System may Become Unbootable
Product: Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0
Category: Availability
Release Phase: Resolved
Resolved Date: 22-Jul-2009
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Sun Alert ID: 258408
Title: Some Sun Fire, SPARC Enterprise, and Sun Storage Systems
Using Power Supply Units Within a Certain Date Code
Range May Experience a Thermal Event Upon PSU Failure
Product: Sun Fire X4240 Server, Sun Fire X4250 Server, Sun Fire
X4440 Server, Sun Fire X4450 Server, Sun SPARC
Enterprise T5240 Server, Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220
Server, Sun Storage 7110 Unified Storage System, Sun
Storage 7410 Unified Storage System
Category: Availability
Release Phase: Resolved
Resolved Date: 23-Jul-2009
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Sun Alert ID: 258508
Title: A Security Vulnerability in the Sun Java System Access
Manager Policy Agent May Result in a Denial of Service
(DoS) to Web Proxy Server 4.0
Product: Sun Java System Access Manager Policy Agents 2.2
Category: Security
Release Phase: Resolved
Resolved Date: 23-Jul-2009
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http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-258508-1
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Sun Alert ID: 264248
Title: Security Vulnerability in the Simple Authentication and
Security Layer (SASL) Library Bundled with the Java
Enterprise System (JES) may Allow Unprivileged Users to
Crash Applications Using the sasl_encode64 Function
Product: Java Enterprise System
Category: Security
Release Phase: Resolved
Resolved Date: 24-Jul-2009
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Sun Alert ID: 264428
Title: Security Vulnerability in Solaris Auditing Related to
Extended File Attributes May Allow Local Unprivileged
Users to Panic the System
Product: Solaris 9, Solaris 10, OpenSolaris
Category: Security, Availability
Release Phase: Resolved
Resolved Date: 23-Jul-2009
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Updated Sun Alert Notifications
(Total Updated: 2)
Sun Alert ID: 259148
Title: Security Vulnerability in the Solaris Simple
Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) Library (see
libsasl(3LIB)) Routine sasl_encode64(3SASL) may Allow
Unprivileged Users to Crash Applications Using this
Function
Product: Solaris 10 Operating System, OpenSolaris
Category: Security
Release Phase: Workaround
Workaround Date: 14-May-2009
Last Updated: 20-Jul-2009
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Sun Alert ID: 263928
Title: Installation of Patch Which Contains File 'libc.so.1'
May Fail on Solaris 10 x86 Systems With zfs(1M) as the
Root Filesystem
Product: Solaris 10 Operating System
Category: Availability
Release Phase: Workaround
Workaround Date: 17-Jul-2009
Last Updated: 23-Jul-2009
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