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TITLE:
Sun Fire X2100 / X2200 "ipmitool" Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA24447

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/24447/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Sun Fire X2100 Series
http://secunia.com/product/13621/
Sun Fire X2200 Series
http://secunia.com/product/13622/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Sun Fire X2100 and Sun Fire
X2200, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain
escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error in the
"ipmitool" utility and can be exploited to gain administrative
privileges.

Successful exploitation allows to reset or power-off local or remote
Sun Fire X2100 M2 and X2200 M2 Servers.

NOTE: This does not affect the SPARC platform.

The vulnerability affects the following products:
* Sun Fire X2100 M2
* Sun Fire X2200 M2

SOLUTION:
Update to the latest version.

Sun Fire X2100 M2:
Update to Sun Fire X2100M2 with BMC/SP Firmware 2.91
http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/x2100/downloads.jsp

Sun Fire X2200 M2:
Update to Sun Fire X2200M2 with BMC/SP Firmware 2.91
http://www.sun.com/servers/x64/x2200/downloads.jsp

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102828-1

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