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Subject SUN ufsrestore Date 06-May-98

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Security Advisory CERT-NL
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Author/Source : Nico de Koo Index : S-98-23
Distribution : World Page : 1
Classification: External Version: 1
Subject : SUN: ufsrestore Date : 06-May-98
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By courtesy of SUN Microsystems, Inc. we received
information on a vulnerability in the ufsrestore program in various versions
of SunOS.
CERT-NL recommends application of the provided patches.
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________________________________________________________________________________
Sun Microsystems, Inc. Security Bulletin

Bulletin Number: #00169
Date: April 29, 1998
Cross-Ref:
Title: ufsrestore
________________________________________________________________________________

The information contained in this Security Bulletin is provided "AS IS."
Sun makes no warranties of any kind whatsoever with respect to the information
contained in this Security Bulletin. ALL EXPRESS OR IMPLIED CONDITIONS,
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES, INCLUDING ANY WARRANTY OF NON-INFRINGEMENT OR
IMPLIED WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, ARE
HEREBY DISCLAIMED AND EXCLUDED TO THE EXTENT ALLOWED BY APPLICABLE LAW.

IN NO EVENT WILL SUN MICROSYSTEMS, INC. BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOST REVENUE,
PROFIT OR DATA, OR FOR DIRECT, SPECIAL, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, INCIDENTAL
OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES HOWEVER CAUSED AND REGARDLESS OF ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY
ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN
THIS SECURITY BULLETIN, EVEN IF SUN MICROSYSTEMS, INC. HAS BEEN ADVISED OF
THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

If any of the above provisions are held to be in violation of applicable law,
void, or unenforceable in any jurisdiction, then such provisions are waived
to the extent necessary for this disclaimer to be otherwise enforceable in
such jurisdiction.
________________________________________________________________________________

1. Bulletins Topics

Sun announces the release of patches for Solaris(tm) 2.5.1 and 2.5
(SunOS(tm) 5.5.1 and 5.5), which relate to a vulnerability in ufsrestore.

Sun recommends that you install the patches listed in section 4
immediately on systems running SunOS 5.5.1 and 5.5.

2. Who is Affected

Vulnerable: SunOS 5.5.1, 5.5.1_x86, 5.5 and 5.5_x86.

Not vulnerable: All other supported versions of SunOS.

3. Understanding the Vulnerability

The ufsrestore utility is used to restore files from backup media
created with the ufsdump command. A vulnerability has been found
in ufsrestore which, if exploited, would permit a user to become
root.

4. List of Patches

The following patches are available in relation to the above problem.

SunOS Patch ID
_____ _________

SunOS 5.5.1 104490-05
SunOS 5.5.1_x86 104491-04
SunOS 5.5 103261-06
SunOS 5.5_x86 103262-06

_______________________________________________________________________________
APPENDICES

A. Patches listed in this bulletin are available to all Sun customers via
World Wide Web at:

<URL:http://sunsolve.sun.com/sunsolve/pubpatches/patches.html>

B. Checksums for the patches listed in this bulletin are available via
World Wide Web at:

<URL:http://sunsolve.sun.com/sunsolve/pubpatches/patches.html>

C. Sun security bulletins are available via World Wide Web at:

<URL:http://sunsolve.sun.com/sunsolve/secbulletins>

D. Sun Security Coordination Team's PGP key is available via World Wide Web
at:

<URL:http://sunsolve.sun.com/sunsolve/secbulletins/SunSCkey.txt>


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CERT-NL wishes to thank SUN Microsystems, Inc for bringing this information to
our attention
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is the Dutch network for educational, research and related institutes. CERT-NL
is a member of the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST).

All CERT-NL material is available under:
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In case of computer or network security problems please contact your local
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please address the appropriate (local) CERT/security-team).

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i.e. UTC+0100 in winter and UTC+0200 in summer (DST).

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