SUN ALERT WEEKLY SUMMARY REPORT - Week of 24-Aug-2008 to 30-Aug-2008



Category :AvailabilitySecurity
Release Phase :ResolvedWorkaround
Week of  24-Aug-2008 to 30-Aug-2008

SUN ALERT WEEKLY SUMMARY REPORT

	Week of  24-Aug-2008 to 30-Aug-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

* New and Updated Sun Alerts for 3 Release Phases:

   Preliminary, Workaround and Resolved

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New Preliminary Sun Alert Notifications
None


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New Workaround Sun Alert Notifications
(Total Workaround: 1)

Sun Alert ID: 241426
Title:   Multiple Printing Regressions in Solaris 10 Kernel patch
        127127-11 and 127128-11
Product: Solaris 10 Operating System, OpenSolaris
Category:             Availability
Release Phase:        Workaround
Workaround Date:      29-Aug-2008

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New Resolved Sun Alert Notifications
(Total Resolved: 3 )


Sun Alert ID: 240706
Title:   Covert Channel Security Vulnerability in the Solaris
        Kernel
Product: Solaris 8 Operating System, Solaris 9 Operating System,
        Solaris 10 Operating System, OpenSolaris
Category:             Security
Release Phase:        Resolved
Resolved Date:        27-Aug-2008

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Sun Alert ID: 240866
Title:   Security Vulnerability in Solaris 10 NFS Remote
        Procedure Calls (RPCs) May Allow a Denial of Service
        (DoS) or Data Integrity Issues for Non-Global Zones
Product: Solaris 10 Operating System, OpenSolaris
Category:             Security
Release Phase:        Resolved
Resolved Date:        25-Aug-2008

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Sun Alert ID: 241246
Title:   Installing Patches 136936-04/-05 on SPARC Enterprise
        T5140 and T5240 systems may lead to Regression and
        Booting Issues
Product: Sun SPARC Enterprise T5140 Server, Sun SPARC Enterprise
        T5240 Server
Category:             Availability
Release Phase:        Resolved
Resolved Date:        28-Aug-2008

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Updated Sun Alert Notifications
(Total Updated: 9 )

Sun Alert ID: 235681
Title:   With Certain Solaris 10 patches installed, svccfg(1M)
        may remove External Dependencies and leave the system
        Unbootable
Product: Solaris 10 Operating System
Category:             Availability
Release Phase:        Resolved
Resolved Date:        06-Jun-2008
Last Updated:         27-Aug-2008

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Sun Alert ID: 239930
Title:   Security Vulnerability in Firmware for T5220, T5140 and
        T5240 Systems May Allow a Denial of Service (DoS)
Product: Sun Netra T5220 Server, Sun SPARC Enterprise T5140
        Server, Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 Server
Category:             Security
Release Phase:        Resolved
Resolved Date:        05-Aug-2008
Last Updated:         28-Aug-2008

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Sun Alert ID: 240105
Title:   Sun StorageTek 25x0 Arrays may send wrong Network
        packets, causing the Sun StorageTek Common Array
        Manager (CAM) Host to Lose the Network Connection to
        the Array
Product: Sun StorageTek 2540 Array, Sun StorageTek 2530 Array,
        Sun StorageTek 2510 Array
Category:             Availability
Release Phase:        Workaround
Workaround Date:      01-Aug-2008
Last Updated:         26-Aug-2008

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Sun Alert ID: 240906
Title:   A Regression in the Secure Shell Daemon (sshd(1M))
        Breaks X11 Forwarding Functionality on IPv4 Only
        Systems
Product: Solaris 9 Operating System, Solaris 10 Operating System
Category:             Availability
Release Phase:        Workaround
Workaround Date:      20-Aug-2008
Last Updated:         29-Aug-2008

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Sun Alert ID: 241066
Title:   A Security Vulnerability in the Solaris NFS Kernel
        Module May Lead to a System Panic, Resulting in a
        Denial of Service (DoS)
Product: Solaris 10 Operating System, OpenSolaris
Category:             Security
Release Phase:        Resolved
Resolved Date:        22-Aug-2008
Last Updated:         27-Aug-2008

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Sun Alert ID: 200697        Previous ID: 103017
Title:   Sun Fire X4100/X4200 Servers with AMD8131 Chipset May
        Require New I/O Card Drivers to Address AMD "errata 62"
Product: Sun Fire X4100 Server, Sun Fire X4200 Server
Category:             Availability
Release Phase:        Resolved
Resolved Date:        29-Aug-2008

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Sun Alert ID: 231241
Title:   Attempts to Install Patch 124898-08 on Brocade Switches
        3250, 3850, 3900, and 24000 will Fail
Product: Brocade 3014 Switch, Brocade 3016 Switch, Brocade
        SilkWorm 3250 Fabric Switch, Brocade SilkWorm 3850
        Fabric Switch, Brocade SilkWorm 3900 Switch, Brocade
        SilkWorm 24000 Director
Category:             Availability
Release Phase:        Resolved
Resolved Date:        26-Aug-2008

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Sun Alert ID: 238887
Title:   Solaris 10 Patches Cause ARP to Erroneously Detect
        Duplicate Network Address Which Leaves the Affected
        Interface in an Unusable State
Product: Solaris 10 Operating System, OpenSolaris
Category:             Availability
Release Phase:        Resolved
Resolved Date:        26-Aug-2008

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Sun Alert ID: 240088
Title:   mem_cache Kernel Module May Cause Panic When Receiving
        an Invalid Ioctl
Product: Solaris 10 Operating System, OpenSolaris
Category:             Availability
Release Phase:        Resolved
Resolved Date:        25-Aug-2008

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Article ID : 241546
Article Type : Sun Alert
Last reviewed : 2008-09-02
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