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                   Sun Microsystems, Inc. Security Bulletin
                
Bulletin Number:        #00203
Date:                   June 21, 2001
Cross-Ref:              AUSCERT AA-2001.03
Title:                  ypbind
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1.  Bulletins Topics

    Sun announces the release of patches for Solaris(tm) 8, 7, 2.6,
    2.5.1, 2.5, and 2.4 (SunOS(tm) 5.8, 5.7, 5.6, 5.5.1, 5.5, and 
    5.4) which relate to a buffer overflow vulnerability in ypbind.

    Sun recommends that you install the patches listed in section 4 
    immediately on systems running SunOS 5.8, 5.7, 5.6, 5.5.1, 5.5,
    and 5.4

2.  Who is Affected
        
        Vulnerable:             SunOS 5.8, 5.8_x86, 5.7, 5.7_x86, 5.6,
                                5.6_x86, 5.5.1, 5.5.1_x86, 5.5, 5.5_x86,
                                5.4, and 5.4_x86
        Not vulnerable:         SunOS 5.8 01/01* and SunOS 5.8_x86 01/01*
                                and all later SunOS 5.8 update releases.
                                SunOS 5.8 and SunOS 5.8_x86 with
                                Maintenance Update (MU) 3* or a later MU
                                applied.

* To determine if one is running SunOS 5.8 01/01 or later or SunOS 5.8
Maintenance Update 3 or later, check the contents of the /etc/release file.

3.  Understanding the Vulnerability

    The ypbind daemon runs on all client and server machines that are set
    up to use NIS.  A buffer overflow vulnerability has been discovered in
    ypbind which may be exploited by a local or a remote attacker to gain
    root access.

4.  List of Patches

    The following patches are available in relation to the above problems.
    
    OS Version          Patch ID        
    __________          _________
    SunOS 5.8           110322-01    
    SunOS 5.8_x86       110323-01    
    SunOS 5.7           108750-02    
    SunOS 5.7_x86       108751-02    
    SunOS 5.6           105403-04   
    SunOS 5.6_x86       105404-04    
    SunOS 5.5.1         105165-04   
    SunOS 5.5.1_x86     105166-04    
    SunOS 5.5           105169-04   
    SunOS 5.5_x86       105170-04    
    SunOS 5.4           101973-41   
    SunOS 5.4_x86       101974-41    
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Sun acknowledges with thanks, AusCERT as well as Mark Dowd and Stephen
James of IT Audit & Consulting, for bringing this issue to our attention
and their assistance in the preparation of this bulletin.
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APPENDICES

A.  Patches listed in this bulletin are available to all Sun customers at:
    
    http://sunsolve.sun.com/securitypatch
    
B.  Checksums for the patches listed in this bulletin are available at:

    ftp://sunsolve.sun.com/pub/patches/CHECKSUMS

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