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Secunia Security Advisory 37594

Secunia Security Advisory 37594
Posted Dec 4, 2009
Authored by Secunia | Site secunia.com

Secunia Security Advisory - Sun has acknowledged some vulnerabilities in Solaris, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or potentially compromise a user's system.

tags | advisory, denial of service, vulnerability
systems | solaris
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Secunia Security Advisory 37594

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TITLE:
Sun Solaris GNU tar Archive Parsing Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA37594

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/37594/

DESCRIPTION:
Sun has acknowledged some vulnerabilities in Solaris, which can be
exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or
potentially compromise a user's system.

1) An input validation error can be exploited to conduct directory
traversal attacks.

For more information:
SA26573

2) An error when processing specially crafted tar archives can be
exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow and crash the
vulnerable application.

SOLUTION:
Apply patches.

-- SPARC Platform --

Solaris 10:
Apply patch 139099-03 or later.


-- x86 Platform --

Solaris 10:
Apply patch 139100-03 or later.

A final resolution is pending completion for Solaris 9.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-273551-1

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA26573:
http://secunia.com/advisories/26573/

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use those supplied by the vendor.

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