Sun Java Studio Enterprise 8 May Create World-Writable Files When Installed by Root



Category :Security
Release Phase :Resolved
Product :Sun Java Studio Enterprise 8  
Bug Id :6309618  
Date of Resolved Release :13-APR-2006 


Impact

A security vulnerability in Sun Java Studio Enterprise 8 may allow a local unprivileged user the ability to execute arbitrary commands as a user who runs Sun Java Studio due to the creation of certain files with world-writable permissions when the product is installed by root.


Contributing Factors

This issue can occur in the following releases:

SPARC Platform

  • Sun Java Studio Enterprise 8 (for Solaris 9 and Solaris 10) without patch 121045-04

x86 Platform

  • Sun Java Studio Enterprise 8 (for Solaris 9 and Solaris 10) without patch 121045-04

Symptoms

If the described issue occurs, certain files in the install directory will be world-writable when the product is installed by root.


Workaround

No file under the install directory should be world-writable.

To work around the described issue, the following command can be used to manually remove the write permission for others:

    $ find <jstudio_ent8> -perm -o+w -exec chmod o-w {} \;

Note: <jstudio_ent8> is the installation root directory.


Resolution

This issue is addressed in the following releases:

SPARC Platform

  • Sun Java Studio Enterprise 8 (for Solaris 9 and Solaris 10) with patch 121045-04 or later

x86 Platform

  • Sun Java Studio Enterprise 8 (for Solaris 9 and Solaris 10) with patch 121045-04 or later





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Article Details
Article ID : 201115
Article Type : Sun Alert
Last reviewed : 2006-04-13
Audience : PUBLIC
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