A weakness and multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Oracle Solaris, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to disclose potentially sensitive information, manipulate certain data, cause a DoS (Denial of Service), and gain escalated privileges, by malicious users to cause a DoS and potentially compromise a vulnerable system, and by malicious people to disclose certain sensitive information, hijack a user's session, cause a DoS and compromise a vulnerable system.

For more information:
SA43512
SA46770
SA48488 (#1)
SA48742
SA49857
SA49938 (#1)
SA50235
SA50544

1) An unspecified error within the kernel subcomponent can be exploited to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash.

2) An unspecified error within the COMSTAR subcomponent can be exploited to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash.

3) An unspecified error exists within the Gnome Trusted Extension subcomponent.

4) An unspecified error exists within the kernel subcomponent.

5) An unspecified error exists within the Power Management subcomponent.

6) An unspecified error exists within the kernel subcomponent.

7) An unspecified error within the Logical Domain(LDOM) subcomponent can be exploited to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash or update, insert, or delete some Solaris accessible data.

Note: This vulnerability only affects Solaris running on SPARC.

8) An unspecified error within the kernel subcomponent can be exploited to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash.

9) An unspecified error within the kernel/RCTL subcomponent can be exploited to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash.

10) An unspecified error within the kernel subcomponent can be exploited to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash.

Note: This vulnerability only affects Solaris running on SPARC T4 servers.

11) An unspecified error within the kernel/System Call subcomponent can be exploited to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash.

12) An unspecified error exists within the inetd subcomponent.

13) An unspecified error within the mailx subcomponent can be exploited to read, update, insert, or delete some Solaris accessible data.

14) An unspecified error within the Gnome Display Manager(GDM) subcomponent can be exploited to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash.

15) An unspecified error within the Vino server subcomponent can be exploited to update, insert, or delete some Solaris accessible data.

16) An unspecified error exists within the kernel subcomponent.

Note: This vulnerability only affects Solaris running on SPARC.

Please see the vendor's advisories for a list of affected versions.

Solution
Apply updates (please see the vendor's advisories for details).

Provided and/or discovered by
It is currently unclear who reported the vulnerabilities as the Oracle Critical Patch Update for October 2012 only provides a bundled list of credits. This section will be updated when/if the original reporter provides more information.

Original Advisory
Oracle:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuoct2012-1515893.html#AppendixSUNS
https://blogs.oracle.com/sunsecurity/entry/cve_2011_0719_denial_of
https://blogs.oracle.com/sunsecurity/entry/cve_2011_4128_buffer_overflow
https://blogs.oracle.com/sunsecurity/entry/cve_2012_1182_arbitrary_code
https://blogs.oracle.com/sunsecurity/entry/cve_2012_1573_denial_of
https://blogs.oracle.com/sunsecurity/entry/cve_2012_3401_denial_of
https://blogs.oracle.com/sunsecurity/entry/cve_2012_3524_permissions_privileges
https://blogs.oracle.com/sunsecurity/entry/cve_2012_4245_arbitrary_code
https://blogs.oracle.com/sunsecurity/entry/multiple_vulnerabilities_in_fetchmail
https://blogs.oracle.com/sunsecurity/entry/multiple_vulnerabilities_in_libexif1

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