Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Oracle Solaris, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to disclose potentially sensitive information, manipulate certain data, and cause a DoS (Denial of Service), by malicious users to cause a DoS, and by malicious people to cause a DoS and potentially compromise a vulnerable system.

1) An unspecified error in the LDAP library can be potentially exploited to compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is reported in versions 8, 9, 10, and 11 Express.

2) An unspecified error in the iSCSI DataMover (IDM) component can be exploited to cause a DoS.

This vulnerability is reported in version 11 Express.

3) An unspecified error in the Process File System (procfs) component can be exploited to manipulate certain data or cause a DoS.

This vulnerability is reported in versions 10 and 11 Express.

4) An unspecified error in the Network Status Monitor (statd(1M)) component can be exploited to cause a DoS.

5) An unspecified error in the Remote Quota Server (rquotad(1M)) component can be exploited to cause a DoS.

6) An unspecified error in the Kernel/Filesystem component can be exploited to cause a DoS.

Vulnerabilities #4 through #6 are reported in versions 8, 9, 10, and 11 Express.

7) An unspecified error in the Kernel/Performance Counter BackEnd Module (pcbe) component can be exploited to cause a DoS.

This vulnerability is reported in versions 10 and 11 Express.

8) An unspecified error in the ZFS component can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS.

9) An unspecified error in the Network Services Library (libnsl(3LIB)) component can be exploited to disclose certain information.

Vulnerabilities #8 and #9 are reported in version 10.

10) An unspecified error in the xscreensaver component can be exploited by malicious, local users to disclose or manipulate certain information.

This vulnerability is reported in versions 9 and 11 Express.

11) An unspecified error in the ZFS component can be exploited to cause a DoS.

This vulnerability is reported in versions 10 and 11 Express.

12) An unspecified error in the DTrace Software Library (libdtrace(3LIB) can be exploited to cause a DoS.

13) An unspecified error in the ZFS component can be exploited to cause a DoS.

14) An unspecified error in the ZFS component can be exploited to disclose certain information.

Vulnerabilities #12 through #14 are reported in version 10.

15) An unspecified error in the Zones component can be exploited to cause a DoS.

This vulnerability is reported in versions 10 and 11 Express.

Solution
Apply patches (see vendor's advisory for details).

Provided and/or discovered by
It is currently unclear who reported the vulnerabilities as the Oracle Critical Patch Update for October 2011 only provides a bundled list of credits. This section will be updated when/if the original reporters provide more information.

Original Advisory
Oracle:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuoct2011-330135.html#AppendixSUNS

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