Secunia - Stay Secure
Home Corporate Website Jobs  Mailing Lists RSS Blog  Online Shop Advertise
Software Inspectors
  Scan Online
  Personal (PSI)
  Network (NSI 2.0)

Solutions For
  Security Professionals
  Security Vendors

Free Solutions For
  Open Communities
  Journalists & Media

Secunia Advisories
  Search
  Historic Advisories
  Listed By Product
  Listed By Vendor
  Statistics / Graphs
  Secunia Research
  Report Vulnerability
  About Advisories

Virus Information
  Chronological List
  Last 10 Virus Alerts
  About Virus Information

Secunia Customers
  Customer Area


Sun Solaris 10 PostgreSQL Multiple Vulnerabilities Advisory Available in Danish  Advisory Available in German 

Secunia Advisory: SA28437  
Release Date: 2008-01-11
Last Update: 2008-02-05

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
DoS
Where: From local network
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Sun Solaris 10


Want to know the next time vulnerabilities are fixed in this product?
- Companies can be alerted via email and SMS!


Description:
Sun has acknowledged some vulnerabilities in Solaris, which can be exploited by malicious users to gain escalated privileges or to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

For more information:
SA28359

The vulnerabilities affect Solaris 10 with PostgreSQL installed, on both the SPARC and x86 platforms.

Solution:
Apply patches.

-- SPARC Platform --

Solaris 10 PostgreSQL 8.2:
Apply patch 136998-02 or later.

-- x86 Platform --

Solaris 10 PostgreSQL 8.2:
Apply patch 136999-02 or later.

Restrict access to trusted users only.

Changelog:
2008-02-05: Updated "Solution" section.

Original Advisory:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103197-1

Other References:
SA28359:
http://secunia.com/advisories/28359/



Please note: The information that this Secunia Advisory is based on comes from a third party unless stated otherwise.

Secunia collects, validates, and verifies all vulnerability reports issued by security research groups, vendors, and others.

237 Related Secunia Security Advisories, displaying 10

1. Sun Solaris Kernel Covert Channel Security Bypass
2. Sun Solaris NFS RPC Zones Denial of Service
3. Sun Solaris NFS Kernel Module Denial of Service
4. Sun Solaris NFSv4 Client Kernel Module Denial of Service
5. Sun Solaris "sendfilev()" Denial of Service
6. Sun Solaris Trusted Extensions Labeled Networking Unauthorised Access
7. Sun Solaris "snoop" Multiple Vulnerabilities
8. Sun Solaris namefs Kernel Module Privilege Escalation
9. Sun Solaris Adobe Reader Multiple Vulnerabilities
10. Sun Solaris "pthread_mutex_reltimedlock_np" Local Denial of Service

Show all related advisories


Send Feedback to Secunia

If you have new information regarding this Secunia advisory or a product in our database, please send it to us using either our web form or email us at vuln@secunia.com.

Ideas, suggestions, and other feedback are most welcome.








Secunia PSI
Scan | Patch | Track
Free Download

Secunia Poll

Do you think it's important to read Setup/User Guides for applications for use within your network?


See Results   


Most Popular Advisories

1.
3Com Wireless 8760 Access Point HTTP Request Processing Denial of Service
2.
CS-Cart "cs_cookies" SQL Injection Vulnerability
3.
Drupal Content Construction Kit Script Insertion Vulnerabilities
4.
HP OpenView Select Identity Connectors Information Disclosure
5.
Gentoo update for mysql
6.
Cisco ASA and PIX Security Appliances Multiple Vulnerabilities
7.
rPath update for libtiff
8.
Gentoo update for dnsmasq
9.
Gentoo update for realplayer
10.
Gentoo update for yelp





Vulnerability Management - Terms & Conditions - Copyright 2002-2008 Secunia - Compliance - Contact Secunia