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Sun Microsystems, Inc. Security Bulletin
Bulletin Number: #00149
Date: August 12, 1997
Cross-Ref: AUSCERT 97.17
Title: Vulnerability in ps
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1. Bulletins Topics
Sun announces the release of patches for Solaris 2.5.1, 2.5, 2.4, and 2.3
(SunOS 5.5.1, 5.5, 5.4, and 5.3), which relate to a vulnerability in the
ps program.
Sun strongly recommends that you install the patches listed in section 4
immediately on systems running SunOS 5.5.1, 5.5, 5.4, and 5.3. Exploit
information is publicly available.
2. Who is Affected
Vulnerable: SunOS versions 5.5.1, 5.5.1_x86, 5.5, 5.5_x86,
5.4, 5.4_x86, and 5.3.
Not vulnerable: All other supported versions of SunOS
The vulnerability is fixed in the upcoming release of Solaris.
3. Understanding the Vulnerability
The ps command prints information about active processes on a system.
Due to insufficient bounds checking on arguments supplied to ps, it is
possible to overwrite the internal data space of the ps program. As ps is
setuid root, this vulnerability may be exploited by users on a system to
gain root access.
4. List of Patches
The vulnerability in ps is fixed by the following patches:
OS version Patch ID
__________ ________
SunOS 5.5.1 105050-01
SunOS 5.5.1_x86 105051-01
SunOS 5.5 105052-01
SunOS 5.5_x86 105053-01
SunOS 5.4 102711-02
SunOS 5.4_x86 102712-02
SunOS 5.3 101545-03
5. Checksum Table
The checksum table below shows the BSD checksums (SunOS 5.x: /usr/ucb/sum),
SVR4 checksums (SunOS 5.x: /usr/bin/sum), and the MD5 digital signatures
for the above-mentioned patches that are available from:
<URL:ftp://sunsolve1.sun.com/pub/patches/patches.html>
These checksums may not apply if you obtain patches from your answer
centers.
File Name BSD SVR4 MD5
_______________ _________ __________ _______________________________
105050-01.tar.Z 40975 131 26675 261 9E75E08487BAAAC785735188F09BD1A
105051-01.tar.Z 34192 132 34975 264 612A6C200D9BA69087FCD3EBA6DF3B2
105052-01.tar.Z 37362 131 3540 261 41EE88EBC09B3E90E4FAEAA7E59E818
105053-01.tar.Z 38180 126 31988 252 D57C2E934BAEE887535CBDB6E88D723
102711-02.tar.Z 12693 107 22447 214 DE783A43205F1290E8CCBEA6A313EDF
102712-02.tar.Z 16617 103 32208 205 DA1C0188D437E30934182CC23A648FC
101545-03.tar.Z 46772 107 49688 214 12CF86B80340842421DD284DAC7FDB0
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APPENDICES
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