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Posted on 30 November 2009
Sun AlertsWeek of 22-Nov-2009 to 28-Nov-2009
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that provides you with a weekly listing of newly released and
updated Sun Alert Notifications. It is being distributed
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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: 231402
Title: Denial of Service Vulnerabilities in ldap_cachemgr(1M)
Daemon
Product: Solaris 8 Operating System, Solaris 9 Operating System ,
Solaris 10 Operating System, OpenSolaris
Category: Security
Release Phase: Workaround
Workaround Date: 24-Nov-2009
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Sun Alert ID: 272789
Title: Systems Installed With Install Miniroot That Include
Certain System Administration Patches May Generate Bad
Disk Label
Product: Solaris 10 Operating System
Category: Availability
Release Phase: Workaround
Workaround Date: 25-Nov-2009
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Sun Alert ID: 273169
Title: Security Vulnerability in BIND DNS Software Shipped With
Solaris May Allow DNS Cache Poisoning
Product: Solaris 9 Operating System, Solaris 10 Operating System,
OpenSolaris
Category: Security
Release Phase: Workaround
Workaround Date: 24-Nov-2009
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New Resolved Sun Alert Notifications
(Total Resolved: 6)
Sun Alert ID: 268868
Title: Solaris 10 Kernel Patch may Cause the Sun Cluster
"failfast" Mechanism to Break in Non-global Zones
Product: Sun Cluster 3.2
Category: Availability
Release Phase: Resolved
Resolved Date: 25-Nov-2009
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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: Resolved
Resolved Date: 25-Nov-2009
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Sun Alert ID: 272351
Title: Solaris Emlxs (emlxs(7D)) Patches May Cause Excessive
and Spurious Errors
Product: Solaris 10 Operating System, OpenSolaris
Category: Availability
Release Phase: Resolved
Resolved Date: 25-Nov-2009
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Sun Alert ID: 272629
Title: Security Vulnerability in the Timeout Mechanism of
Solaris sshd(1M) may Lead to a Denial of Service (DoS)
Product: Solaris 10, OpenSolaris
Category: Security
Release Phase: Resolved
Resolved Date: 23-Nov-2009
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Sun Alert ID: 272669
Title: A Solaris Kernel Change Stops Sun Cluster Using
"zpool.cachefiles" to Import zpools Resulting in ZFS
pool Import Performance Degradation or Failure to
Import the zpools
Product: Solaris 10 Operating System
Category: Availability
Release Phase: Resolved
Resolved Date: 24-Nov-2009
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Sun Alert ID: 272909
Title: Multiple Security Vulnerabilities in Firefox Versions
Before 3.5.5 May Allow Execution of Arbitrary Code or
Unauthorized Access to Certain Data
Product: OpenSolaris
Category: Security
Release Phase: Resolved
Resolved Date: 24-Nov-2009
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Updated Sun Alert Notifications
None
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