SUN ALERT WEEKLY SUMMARY REPORT

Week of 17-Feb-2008 to 23-Feb-2008

Welcome to the Sun Alert Weekly Summary Report, the newsletter
that provides you with a weekly listing of newly released and
updated Sun Alert Notifications. It is being distributed
to inform you about critical hardware and software issues that
could impact the availability, security, and data integrity of
your computing environment.

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ISSUE HIGHLIGHTS

* Newly Released Sun Alerts for 3 Release Phases:

Preliminary, Workaround and Resolved

* Updated Sun Alerts

* Additional Information

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New Preliminary Sun Alert Notifications
None

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New Workaround Sun Alert Notifications
(Total Workaround: 3)

Sun Alert ID: 231804
Title: Certain Solaris 10 CDE Patches Cause the Installation of
SUNWdtlog to Fail When Creating Zones
Product: Solaris 10 Operating System
Category: Availability
Release Phase: Workaround
Workaround Date: 19-Feb-2008

To view this Sun Alert document please go to the following URL:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-231804-1
If this Sun Alert document is not publicly available, go to the
SunSpectrum Member Support Center at www.sun.com/support and
search for the Sun Alert ID above.

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Sun Alert ID: 233283
Title: Solaris 10 Kernel Update Patches Remove Contents of
“/etc/inet/secret/ike.preshared” File
Product: Solaris 10 Operating System
Category: Availability
Release Phase: Workaround
Workaround Date: 19-Feb-2008

To view this Sun Alert document please go to the following URL:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-233283-1
If this Sun Alert document is not publicly available, go to the
SunSpectrum Member Support Center at www.sun.com/support and
search for the Sun Alert ID above.

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Sun Alert ID: 233341
Title: Solaris 10 x86 Systems Using Marvell HBA Controllers May
Experience Panic or Hang
Product: Solaris 10 Operating System
Category: Availability
Release Phase: Workaround
Workaround Date: 21-Feb-2008

To view this Sun Alert document please go to the following URL:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-233341-1
If this Sun Alert document is not publicly available, go to the
SunSpectrum Member Support Center at www.sun.com/support and
search for the Sun Alert ID above.

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New Resolved Sun Alert Notifications
(Total Resolved: 2)

Sun Alert ID: 231803
Title: Security Vulnerability in the Solaris 10 DTrace Dynamic
Tracing Framework May Allow Unauthorized Kernel Level
Tracing
Product: Solaris 10 Operating System
Category: Security
Release Phase: Resolved
Resolved Date: 18-Feb-2008

To view this Sun Alert document please go to the following URL:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-231803-1
If this Sun Alert document is not publicly available, go to the
SunSpectrum Member Support Center at www.sun.com/support and
search for the Sun Alert ID above.

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Sun Alert ID: 233281
Title: Incorrect Patches or Sequence of Installation May
Disable N2 Hardware Encryption for IPsec on T5120 and
T5220
Product: Solaris 10 Operating System
Category: Availability
Release Phase: Resolved
Resolved Date: 19-Feb-2008

To view this Sun Alert document please go to the following URL:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-233281-1
If this Sun Alert document is not publicly available, go to the
SunSpectrum Member Support Center at www.sun.com/support and
search for the Sun Alert ID above.

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Updated Sun Alert Notifications
(Total Updated: 5)

Sun Alert ID: 200044 Previous ID: 103052
Title: With Sun StorEdge SAN 4.4.11, 4.4.12, and 4.4.13,
fcp_offline_delay May Not be Set During Boot
Product: Sun StorageTek SAN 4.4.8 Software
Category: Availability
Release Phase: Workaround
Workaround Date: 29-Aug-2007
Last Updated: 19-Feb-2008

To view this Sun Alert document please go to the following URL:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-200044-1
If this Sun Alert document is not publicly available, go to the
SunSpectrum Member Support Center at www.sun.com/support and
search for the Sun Alert ID above.

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Sun Alert ID: 200649 Previous ID: 103189
Title: Installing Certain Solaris 10 Samba Patches Causes
“inetd” Services to Fail in Non-global Zones
Product: Solaris 10 Operating System
Category: Availability
Release Phase: Workaround
Workaround Date: 21-Dec-2007
Last Updated: 19-Feb-2008

To view this Sun Alert document please go to the following URL:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-200649-1
If this Sun Alert document is not publicly available, go to the
SunSpectrum Member Support Center at www.sun.com/support and
search for the Sun Alert ID above.

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Sun Alert ID: 200859 Previous ID: 103063
Title: Security Vulnerability in BIND 8 May Allow Cache
Poisoning Attack
Product: Solaris 9 Operating System, Solaris 8 Operating System
Category: Security
Release Phase: Resolved
Resolved Date: 15-Oct-2007
Last Updated: 18-Feb-2008

To view this Sun Alert document please go to the following URL:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-200859-1
If this Sun Alert document is not publicly available, go to the
SunSpectrum Member Support Center at www.sun.com/support and
search for the Sun Alert ID above.

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Sun Alert ID: 201227 Previous ID: 103175
Title: Security Vulnerabilities in the Sun Ray Device Manager
Daemon
Product: Sun Ray Server Software 3.1, Sun Ray Server Software
3.1.1, Sun Ray Server Software 3.0, Sun Ray Server
Software 2.0
Category: Security
Release Phase: Workaround
Workaround Date: 18-Dec-2007
Last Updated: 19-Feb-2008

To view this Sun Alert document please go to the following URL:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-201227-1
If this Sun Alert document is not publicly available, go to the
SunSpectrum Member Support Center at www.sun.com/support and
search for the Sun Alert ID above.

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Sun Alert ID: 231524
Title: Security Vulnerability in Solaris 10 Perl 5.8
Product: Solaris 10 Operating System, Perl 5.8
Category: Security
Release Phase: Workaround
Workaround Date: 11-Feb-2008
Last Updated: 19-Feb-2008

To view this Sun Alert document please go to the following URL:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-231524-1
If this Sun Alert document is not publicly available, go to the
SunSpectrum Member Support Center at www.sun.com/support and
search for the Sun Alert ID above.

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Additional Information:

Please see the following sites for recent information on the new
SunSpectrum Member Support Center and changes to SunSolve:

* SunSpectrum Member Support Center wiki
http://wikis.sun.com/display/ssmsc
* New SunSolve wiki
http://wikis.sun.com/display/sunsolve

Changes to the Online Support Center (OSC) :

* New OSC wiki http://wikis.sun.com/display/osc

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ISSUE HIGHLIGHTS

* Newly Released Sun Alert Notifications

* Updated Sun Alert Notifications

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Newly Released Sun Alert Notifications
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(Total Released: 8 )

Sun Alert ID: 103161 (RESOLVED)
Synopsis: Data Integrity Issues With PCI-E Write Transactions
Using LSI 1064et and 1068e HBAs
Product: Solaris 10 Operating System
Category: Data Loss
Date Released: 08-Jan-2008
Date Closed: 08-Jan-2008

To view this Sun Alert document please go to the following URL:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103161-1

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Sun Alert ID: 103165 (RESOLVED)
Synopsis: A Security Vulnerability in libdevinfo(3LIB) May
Allow Unauthorized Access to Files on the System
Product: Solaris 10 Operating System
Category: Security
Date Released: 11-Jan-2008
Date Closed: 11-Jan-2008

To view this Sun Alert document please go to the following URL:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103165-1

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Sun Alert ID: 103171 (RESOLVED)
Synopsis: Security Vulnerability in FreeType 2 Font Engine
May Allow Privilege Escalation Due to Heap Overflow
Product: Solaris 9 Operating System, Solaris 10 Operating
System, Solaris 8 Operating System
Category: Security
Date Released: 06-Jan-2008
Date Closed: 06-Jan-2008

To view this Sun Alert document please go to the following URL:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103171-1

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Sun Alert ID: 103180
Synopsis: Multiple Security Vulnerabilities in the Sun Java
System Identity Manager May Allow HTML Injection,
Cross-Site Scripting Exploits or Unauthorized
Redirection
Product: Sun Java System Identity Manager 7.0, Sun Java
System Identity Manager 6.0, Sun Java System
Identity Manager 7.1
Category: Security
Date Released: 09-Jan-2008

To view this Sun Alert document please go to the following URL:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103180-1

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Sun Alert ID: 103187
Synopsis: On Solaris 10 Systems, the KSSL Kernel Module may
Corrupt Incoming Data
Product: Solaris 10 Operating System
Category: Data Loss
Date Released: 09-Jan-2008

To view this Sun Alert document please go to the following URL:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103187-1

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Sun Alert ID: 103188 (RESOLVED)
Synopsis: Security Vulnerability in Solaris 10 Related to the
dotoprocs() Routine
Product: Solaris 10 Operating System
Category: Security
Date Released: 11-Jan-2008
Date Closed: 11-Jan-2008

To view this Sun Alert document please go to the following URL:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103188-1

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Sun Alert ID: 103197
Synopsis: Multiple Security Vulnerabilities in PostgreSQL
Shipped with Solaris 10 May Allow Elevation of
Privileges or Denial of Service (DoS)
Product: Solaris 10 Operating System
Category: Security
Date Released: 10-Jan-2008

To view this Sun Alert document please go to the following URL:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103197-1

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Sun Alert ID: 103198 (RESOLVED)
Synopsis: Solaris 10 Systems Equipped With e1000g Drivers for
Intel 82571EB Chipset Based Intel Gigabit Ethernet
Controllers May Experience Ethernet Link Flaps
Product: Solaris 10 Operating System
Category: Availability
Date Released: 09-Jan-2008
Date Closed: 09-Jan-2008

To view this Sun Alert document please go to the following URL:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103198-1

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Updated Sun Alert Notifications
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(Total Updated: 5)

Sun Alert ID: 103104 (RESOLVED)
Synopsis: The patchrm(1) Utility May Fail if the Patch Being
Removed was Installed Using a Japanese Locale
Product: Solaris 10 Operating System
Category: Availability
Date Released: 05-Oct-2007, 07-Jan-2008
Date Closed: 07-Jan-2008

To view this Sun Alert document please go to the following URL:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103104-1

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Sun Alert ID: 103111 (RESOLVED)
Synopsis: Under Certain Conditions, LUNs That Are Larger Than
2 Terabytes in Size Will Not be Accessible
Product: Solaris 10 Operating System
Category: Availability
Date Released: 18-Oct-2007, 07-Jan-2008
Date Closed: 07-Jan-2008

To view this Sun Alert document please go to the following URL:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103111-1
(before accessing this Sun Alert document please login to a
SunSolve Online Account with a Sun Spectrum Support Contract
at http://sunsolve.sun.com -> “Login”)

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Sun Alert ID: 103132 (RESOLVED)
Synopsis: Incorrect Script in Solaris 8 SPARC Patches
109896-34 and 109896-35 May Cause Duplicate Entries
in “/etc/name_to_major”
Product: Solaris 8 Operating System
Category: Availability
Date Released: 01-Nov-2007, 07-Jan-2008
Date Closed: 07-Jan-2008

To view this Sun Alert document please go to the following URL:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103132-1

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Sun Alert ID: 103151 (RESOLVED)
Synopsis: SPARC Enterprise Mx000 Servers with SAS DVD/DAT May
Panic on Reboot if Patch 125081-10 is Installed
Product: Solaris 10 Operating System
Category: Availability
Date Released: 15-Nov-2007, 09-Jan-2008
Date Closed: 09-Jan-2008

To view this Sun Alert document please go to the following URL:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103151-1

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Sun Alert ID: 103155 (RESOLVED)
Synopsis: Solaris 10 Systems May Fail to Come up if Patches
Are Applied After Kernel Patches 120011-14 (SPARC)
and 120012-14 (x86) and Before the Reboot
Product: Solaris 10 Operating System
Category: Availability
Date Released: 21-Nov-2007, 07-Jan-2008
Date Closed: 07-Jan-2008

Here’s a good link that I came across for using ssh-agent. There good .profile examples near the bottom.
http://mah.everybody.org/docs/ssh