P-107: Security Vulnerability in Solaris 8 DHCP Administration Utilities

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Sun(sm) Alert Notification 
Sun Alert ID: 57727 
Synopsis: Security Vulnerability in Solaris 8 DHCP Administration Utilities 
Category: Security 
Product: Solaris 
BugIDs: 4646306 
Avoidance: Patch 
State: Resolved 
Date Released: 19-Jan-2005 
Date Closed: 19-Jan-2005 
Date Modified: 

1. Impact A security vulnerability in the DHCP administration utilities dhcpconfig(1M), pntadm(1M), 
and dhcpmgr(1M) may allow an unprivileged local user the ability to execute arbitrary code with the privileges
of root. 

2. Contributing Factors This issue can occur in the following releases: 

SPARC Platform 

Solaris 8 with patch 109077-02 through 109077-08 and without patch 109077-09 

x86 Platform 

Solaris 8 with patch 109078-02 through 109078-08 and without patch 109078-09 

Note: Solaris 7 and Solaris 9 are not affected by this issue. 

A system is only vulnerable to this issue if the DHCP server packages have been installed. 

To determine if the DHCP server packages have been installed, the following command can be run: 

    $ pkginfo SUNWdhcm SUNWdhcsu                  
	
3. Symptoms There are no predictable symptoms that would indicate the described issue has occurred. 

Solution Summary Top 
4. Relief/Workaround To work around the described issue, edit each of the following files: 

   /usr/lib/inet/dhcp/svcadm/pntadm
   /usr/lib/inet/dhcp/svcadm/dhcpconfig
   /usr/sadm/admin/bin/dhcpmgr                             
   
and modify the following line: 

From: 

    LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:${WBEMDIR}                              
	
To: 

    LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${WBEMDIR}                             
	
5. Resolution This issue is addressed in the following releases: 

SPARC Platform 

Solaris 8 with patch 109077-09 or later 

x86 Platform 

Solaris 8 with patch 109078-09 or later 

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