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                   Sun Microsystems, Inc. Security Bulletin

                

Bulletin Number:        #00155

Date:                   October 28, 1997

Cross-Ref:              

Title:                  nis_cachemgr

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1.  Bulletins Topics



    Sun announces the release of patches for Solaris 2.5.1, 2.5, and 2.4

    (SunOS 5.5.1, 5.5, and 5.4) which relate to a vulnerability in

    nis_cachemgr.



    Sun estimates that the release of a patch for Solaris 2.3 (SunOS 5.3)

    that relate to the same vulnerability will be available within 4 weeks

    of the date of this bulletin.



    Sun strongly recommends that you install the patches listed in section 4

    immediately on systems running SunOS 5.5.1, 5.5, and 5.4 which use

    NIS+.



2.  Who is Affected

        

    Vulnerable:  SunOS versions 5.5.1, 5.5.1_x86, 5.5, 5.5_x86,

                                5.4, 5.4_x86, 5.3



    Not vulnerable: All other supported versions of SunOS.

                                                

    The vulnerability does not exist in Solaris 2.6.



3.  Understanding the Vulnerability



    NIS+ clients run nis_cachemgr, a NIS+ utility that caches location

    information about NIS+ servers. This vulnerability, if exploited, allows

    attackers to add bogus directory objects to the global shared cache, in

    effect specifying rogue NIS+ servers that are under their control.



4.  List of Patches



    The vulnerability in nis_cachemgr is fixed by the following patches:



    OS version          Patch ID

    __________          ________

    SunOS 5.5.1         103612-33               

    SunOS 5.5.1_x86     103613-32       

    SunOS 5.5           103187-29       

    SunOS 5.5_x86       103188-29       

    SunOS 5.4           101973-32       

    SunOS 5.4_x86       101974-32       

    SunOS 5.3           101318-89       (to be released in 4 weeks)



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:



        http://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

_______________   __________   __________    ________________________________

103612-33.tar.Z   42409 3248   60555 6495    63408A137DBE6BEEDAECFA49674F0E5A

103613-32.tar.Z   08972 2939   41390 5878    E613588ADA2845DA2CEDE801FE247ED2

103187-29.tar.Z   47938 3240   14585 6479    D681C0BB1C4267418AEB20F56DDE7FD3

103188-29.tar.Z   36871 2919   14150 5838    F7184B433BF9EDCBA99E81D2039F355A

101973-32.tar.Z   55144 956    44485 1911    A802DA901090B52A27BDC6AE0D386C13

101974-32.tar.Z   41770 826    48991 1652    91AB26639B6CB0902ADE354999751826

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APPENDICES



A.  Patches listed in this bulletin are available to all Sun customers via

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