Notified: January 30, 2001 Updated: September 26, 2001
Status
Affected
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Addendum
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Sun Microsystems, Inc. Security Bulletin
Bulletin Number:#00184
Date: February 10, 1999
Cross-Ref:
Title:man/catman
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1. Background
The man command displays information from the reference manuals. The
catman utility creates preformatted versions of the on-line manuals.
Vulnerabilities have been discovered with these commands that may be
exploited to overwrite arbitrary files when man or catman is executed
by root.
2. Affected Supported Versions
Solaris(tm) versions: 7, 7_x86, 2.6, 2.6_x86, 2.5.1, 2.5.1_x86, 2.5,
2.5_x86, 2.4, 2.4_x86, and 2.3
SunOS(tm) versions: 4.1.4 and 4.1.3_U1
3. Recommendations
Sun recommends that you install the respective patches immediately
on affected systems.
Operating SystemPatch ID
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Solaris 7 107038-01
Solaris 7_x86 107039-01
Solaris 2.6 106123-04
Solaris 2.6_x86 106124-04
Solaris 2.5.1 106905-01
Solaris 2.5.1_x86 106906-01
Solaris 2.5 106907-01
Solaris 2.5_x86 106908-01
Solaris 2.4 106912-01
Solaris 2.4_x86 106962-01
Solaris 2.3 106911-01
SunOS 4.1.4107157-01
107144-01
SunOS 4.1.3_U1107156-01
107143-01
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