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Sun Solaris Process Environment Disclosure Security Issue
Secunia Advisory: SA19426
Release Date: 2006-03-28
Popularity: 9,392 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Exposure of sensitive information
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Sun Solaris 8
Sun Solaris 9

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Description:
A security issue has been reported in Solaris, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain knowledge of potentially sensitive information.

The security issue is caused due to the "/usr/ucb/ps" command revealing the environment variables and values of all processes to an unprivileged user when run with the "-e" option. This can potentially reveal certain information of processes that belong to the root user.

The security issue has been reported in Solaris 8 and 9 on both the x86 and SPARC platforms.

Solution:
Apply patches.

-- SPARC Platform --

Solaris 8:
Apply patch 109023-05 or later.

Solaris 9:
Apply patch 120240-01 or later.

-- x86 Platform --

Solaris 8:
Apply patch 109024-05 or later.

Solaris 9:
Apply patch 120239-01 or later,

Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by vendor.

Original Advisory:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102215-1


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