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Posted on 19 October 2009
Sun AlertsWeek of 11-Oct-2009 to 17-Oct-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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* 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: 269748
Title: Solaris 10 Kernel Patches may Cause Application Data
Corruption and Unexpected Application Failure on
UltraSPARC III, III+, IIIi, IIIi+, IV, IV+ Systems
Product:
Category: Data Loss, Availability
Release Phase: Workaround
Workaround Date: 13-Oct-2009
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Sun Alert ID: 269788
Title: Security Vulnerability in Solaris libpng(3) May Allow a
Remote User to Disclose Potentially Sensitive
Information from Applications Linked to libpng(3)
Product: Solaris 8 Operating System, Solaris 9 Operating System,
Solaris 10 Operating System, OpenSolaris
Category: Security
Release Phase: Workaround
Workaround Date: 14-Oct-2009
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Sun Alert ID: 270089
Title: On Solaris 10 AES192/AES256 Encryption Enabled sshd(1M)
Support May Fail
Product:
Category: Availability
Release Phase: Workaround
Workaround Date: 15-Oct-2009
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New Resolved Sun Alert Notifications
(Total Resolved: 7)
Sun Alert ID: 249566
Title: ZFS(zfs(1M)) filesystem(5) Performance May Drop
Significantly if the ZFS Pool Becomes Full
Product: Solaris 10 Operating System, OpenSolaris
Category: Availability
Release Phase: Resolved
Resolved Date: 13-Oct-2009
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Sun Alert ID: 265908
Title: A Security Vulnerability in the ZFS Filesystem May Allow
An Unprivileged User to Take Ownership of Files
Belonging to Another User
Product: Solaris 10 Operating System, OpenSolaris
Category: Security
Release Phase: Resolved
Resolved Date: 14-Oct-2009
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Sun Alert ID: 267031
Title: Heap Overflow in a Regular Expression Parser in Network
Security Services (NSS) may Affect SSL Clients
(CVE-2009-2404)
Product: Solaris 9 Operating System, Solaris 10 Operating System,
Sun Java Enterprise System 5, Sun Java Enterprise
System 2005
Category: Security
Release Phase: Resolved
Resolved Date: 13-Oct-2009
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Sun Alert ID: 268728
Title: Solaris 10 Kernel Update Patches 141414-09/-10 and
141415-09/-10 May Cause a System Panic, Which May Be
Misdiagnosed as a Hardware Fault
Product: Solaris 10 Operating System
Category: Availability
Release Phase: Resolved
Resolved Date: 14-Oct-2009
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Sun Alert ID: 269008
Title: Multiple Security Vulnerabilities in the JBIG2 Decoder
in the OpenSolaris GNOME PDF Viewer may Lead to
Execution of Arbitrary Code
Product: OpenSolaris
Category: Security
Release Phase: Resolved
Resolved Date: 13-Oct-2009
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Sun Alert ID: 269808
Title: Improper Redundancy Testing on Sun SPARC Enterprise
M4000/M5000 Servers May Result in Domain Outages, or
Cause Components to be Falsely Marked as Faulty
Product: Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000 Server, Sun SPARC Enterprise
M5000 Server
Category: Availability
Release Phase: Resolved
Resolved Date: 14-Oct-2009
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Sun Alert ID: 269828
Title: During "supportdata" Collection Sun Storage Arrays May
Experience Loss of Data Access
Product: StorageTek Flexline 380 Array, Sun StorageTek 6140
Array, Sun StorageTek 6540 Array, Sun Storage 6580
Array, Sun Storage 6780 Array
Category: Availability
Release Phase: Resolved
Resolved Date: 14-Oct-2009
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Updated Sun Alert Notifications
(Total Updated: 2 )
Sun Alert ID: 200196 Previous ID: 102648
Title: Security Vulnerability in RSA Signature Verification
Impacting Multiple SUN Products
Product: Sun Security Services
Category: Security
Release Phase: Preliminary
Preliminary Date: 02-Oct-2006
Last Updated: 13-Oct-2009
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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
Last Updated: 14-Oct-2009
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