Sun Security Bulletin #00153

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                   Sun Microsystems, Inc. Security Bulletin

Bulletin Number:        #00153
Date:                   August 25, 1997
Cross-Ref:              CERT CA-97.11
Title:                  Vulnerabilities in libXt
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1.  Bulletins Topics

    Sun announces the release of patches for Solaris 2.5.1, 2.5, 2.4, 2.3,
    (SunOS 5.5.1, 5.5, 5.4, 5.3), SunOS 4.1.4, and 4.1.3_U1, which relate
    to vulnerabilities in libXt.

    Sun strongly recommends that you install the patches listed in section 4
    immediately on systems running SunOS 5.5.1, 5.5, 5.4, 5.3, 4.1.4, and
    4.1.3_U1. Exploit information is publicly available.

2.  Who is Affected

    Vulnerable:  SunOS versions 5.5.1, 5.5.1_x86, 5.5, 5.5_x86,
                                5.4, 5.4_x86, 5.3, 4.1.4, and 4.1.3_U1

    The vulnerabilities are fixed in Solaris 2.6.

3.  Understanding the Vulnerabilities

    libXt is a library in the X Windows system. There are several buffers
    in libXt that may be overflowed. The buffer overflow vulnerabilities may
    be exploited through setuid and setgid programs that link libXt to
    increase privileges, including root privileges.

4.  List of Patches

    The vulnerabilities in libXt are fixed by the following patches:

    OS version          Patch ID
    __________          ________
    SunOS 5.5.1         104338-02
    SunOS 5.5.1_x86     105105-01
    SunOS 5.5           104337-02
    SunOS 5.5_x86       105104-01
    SunOS 5.4           105075-01
    SunOS 5.4_x86       105103-01
    SunOS 5.3           101429-04
    SunOS 4.1.4         100512-05
    SunOS 4.1.3_U1      100512-05

5.  Checksum Table

    The checksum table below shows the BSD checksums (SunOS 4.1.x: /bin/sum;
    SunOS 5.x: /usr/ucb/sum), SVR4 checksums (SunOS 5.x: /usr/bin/sum), and
    the MD5 digital signatures for the above-mentioned patches that are
    available from:

        <URL:ftp://sunsolve1.sun.com/pub/patches/patches.html>

    These checksums may not apply if you obtain patches from your answer
    centers.

File Name         BSD         SVR4         MD5
_______________   _________   __________   ________________________________
104338-02.tar.Z   19861 746   5636 1492    5C41779D358B7C3E96A6AFBAD69E26BB
105105-01.tar.Z   60209 652   30450 1303   859659A92DE3CB4FC476F41E30442695
104337-02.tar.Z   07260 740   64023 1480   2F9E1064C17AD040EC45255DFF8DEFE5
105104-01.tar.Z   11186 802   44802 1603   580F3B9FF748E0913322CB431893815C
105075-01.tar.Z   51275 709   63521 1417   8B6A52B62D9092C7061A80AA33BDB4AA
105103-01.tar.Z   20278 619   48559 1238   E1A592FFACAFD2B3A79B2A7C525B24A2
101429-04.tar.Z   35975 991   3045 1981    1EA911E52281DD23856316F49825EABA
100512-05.tar.Z   58168 468   3889 936     9189EFFE254BF48BF68B7C381BB78615
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APPENDICES

A.  Patches listed in this bulletin are available to all Sun customers via
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        <URL:ftp://sunsolve1.sun.com/pub/patches/patches.html>

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