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Document Audience:	PUBLIC
Document ID:	57727
Title:	Document ID 57727
Synopsis:	Security Vulnerability in Solaris 8 DHCP Administration Utilities
Update Date:	2005-01-19

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Sun(sm) Alert Notification

Sun Alert ID: 57727
Synopsis: Security Vulnerability in Solaris 8 DHCP Administration Utilities
Category: Security
Product: Solaris
BugIDs: 4646306
Avoidance: Patch
State: Resolved
Date Released: 19-Jan-2005
Date Closed: 19-Jan-2005
Date Modified:

1. Impact A security vulnerability in the DHCP administration utilities dhcpconfig(1M), pntadm(1M), and dhcpmgr(1M) may allow an unprivileged local user the ability to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of root.

2. Contributing Factors This issue can occur in the following releases:

SPARC Platform

Solaris 8 with patch 109077-02 through 109077-08 and without patch 109077-09

x86 Platform

Solaris 8 with patch 109078-02 through 109078-08 and without patch 109078-09

Note: Solaris 7 and Solaris 9 are not affected by this issue.

A system is only vulnerable to this issue if the DHCP server packages have been installed.

To determine if the DHCP server packages have been installed, the following command can be run:

    $ pkginfo SUNWdhcm SUNWdhcsu

3. Symptoms There are no predictable symptoms that would indicate the described issue has occurred.

Solution Summary

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4. Relief/Workaround To work around the described issue, edit each of the following files:

   /usr/lib/inet/dhcp/svcadm/pntadm
   /usr/lib/inet/dhcp/svcadm/dhcpconfig
   /usr/sadm/admin/bin/dhcpmgr

and modify the following line:

From:

    LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:${WBEMDIR}

To:

    LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${WBEMDIR}

5. Resolution This issue is addressed in the following releases:

SPARC Platform

Solaris 8 with patch 109077-09 or later

x86 Platform

Solaris 8 with patch 109078-09 or later

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