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INFORMATION BULLETIN
Web-Based Enterprise Management on Solaris 8 Installs Insecure Files
[Sun Alert ID: 48320 ]
October 31, 2002 16:00 GMT Number N-010
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PROBLEM: Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM)packages "SUNWwbdoc",
"SUNWwbcou", "SUNWwbdev" and "SUNWmgapp" are installed with
world and/or group write permissions.
SOTFWARE: Solaris 8 Update 1/01 (or later Solaris 8 Update Releases)
DAMAGE: An unprivileged local user may be able to gain unauthorized
root access or cause a denial of service.
SOLUTION: Apply available patches.
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VULNERABILITY The risk is MEDIUM. An unprivileged local user may be able to
ASSESSMENT: gain unauthorized root access. There are no symptoms that would
show the described issue has already been exploited.
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LINKS:
CIAC BULLETIN: http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/n-010.shtml
ORIGINAL BULLETIN:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=fsalert%
2F48320&zone_32=category%3Asecurity
PATCHES:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/findPatch.pl?
patchId=109134&rev=27
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/findPatch.pl?
patchId=109135&rev=27
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[***** Start Sun Alert ID: 48320 *****]
Sun(sm) Alert Notification
Sun Alert ID: 48320
Synopsis: Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) on Solaris 8 Installs Insecure Files
Category: Security
Product: Solaris
BugIDs: 4381755
Avoidance: Patch, Workaround
State: Resolved
Date Released: 28-Oct-2002
Date Closed: 28-Oct-2002
Date Modified:
1. Impact
Installation of Solaris 8 Update 1/01 (or later Solaris 8 Update Releases) will by
default install the Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) packages "SUNWwbdoc",
"SUNWwbcou", "SUNWwbdev" and "SUNWmgapp". These packages install files with world
and/or group write permissions.
As a result, an unprivileged local user may be able to gain unauthorized root access
or cause a denial of service.
2. Contributing Factors
This issue can occur in the following releases:
SPARC
Solaris 8 Update 1/01 and later Solaris 8 Update releases without patch 109134-
27
Intel
Solaris 8 Update 1/01 and later Solaris 8 Update releases without patch 109135-
27
Note: Solaris 9 is not affected.
Note: Web-Based Enterprise Management was introduced in Solaris 8 Update 1/01 and is
not supported on earlier Solaris releases (the contents of the "/etc/release" file
reflects the currently installed Solaris release). Therefore, Solaris 8, Solaris 8
Update 6/00 and Solaris 8 Update 10/00 are not affected by this issue.
Only systems that have one or more of the following packages installed are affected by
this issue:
SUNWwbdoc
SUNWwbcou
SUNWwbdev
SUNWmgapp
The pkginfo(1) command will display the currently installed packages.
3. Symptoms
On affected systems, some files have group or world write permissions set, for example
the "/usr/sadm/lib/wbem/cimomboot" as shown in the following example:
$ ls -l /usr/sadm/lib/wbem/cimomboot
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root sys 5128 Feb 23 2001 /usr/sadm/lib/wbem/cimomboot
Other files with group or world write permissions set can be found in the "/usr/sadm"
and "/usr/demo/wbem" directories.
There are no symptoms that would show the described issue has already been exploited
to gain unauthorized root access to a system.
Solution Summary Top
4. Relief/Workaround
To work around the described issue, remove group and world write permissions from
affected files by running the following command as the root user:
# find /usr/sadm /usr/demo/wbem \( -perm -0020 -o -perm -0002 \) -exec chmod go-w
{} \;
5. Resolution
This issue is addressed in the following releases:
SPARC
Solaris 8 with patch 109134-27 or later
Intel
Solaris 8 with patch 109135-27 or later
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information contained in this bulletin.
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