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Sun Solaris RSA Signature Forgery Vulnerability Advisory Available in Danish  Advisory Available in German 

Secunia Advisory: SA22226  
Release Date: 2006-10-04
Last Update: 2007-11-09

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Security Bypass
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Partial Fix

OS:Sun Solaris 10
Sun Solaris 8
Sun Solaris 9


CVE reference:CVE-2006-4339 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2006-5201 (Secunia mirror)



Description:
Sun has acknowledged a vulnerability in various products included in Solaris, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions.

For more information:
SA21709

The following products are affected:
* OpenSSL (Solaris 9 and 10)
* Mozilla
* GnuTLS

Solution:
Do not use RSA keys with an exponent of 3.

The vendor has issued patches for OpenSSL.

-- SPARC Platform --

Solaris 9 SSH (without patches 112908-24, 113273-11, 114356-07, 117177-02 or later):
Apply patches 113273-14 and 114356-11 or later.

Solaris 9 Packaging utilities:
Apply patch 113713-24 or later.

Solaris 10:
Apply patch 121229-02 or later.

-- x86 Platform --

Solaris 9 SSH (without patches 114263-05, 114357-07, 114858-09, 115168-11, 117178-02 or later):
Apply patch 114357-10 and 114858-11 or later.

Solaris 9 Packaging utilities:
Apply patch 114568-23 or later.

Solaris 10:
Apply patch 121230-02 or later.

Changelog:
2006-10-13: Added CVE reference.
2006-12-11: Added link to additional advisory. Updated "Description". OpenSSL is only affected in Solaris 10.
2007-11-09: Updated "Solution" and "Description" sections. Solaris 9 is also affected by the vulnerability in OpenSSL through certain statically linked applications.

Original Advisory:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102648-1
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102744-1

Other References:
SA21709:
http://secunia.com/advisories/21709/



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