Insecure Temporary File Usage Vulnerability in Sun SNMP Management Agent

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Insecure Temporary File Usage Vulnerability in Sun SNMP Management Agent

1. Impact

An insecure temporary file vulnerability in the Sun Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Management Agent may allow a local unprivileged user to overwrite any system file or gain root privileges.

Sun Acknowledges with thanks Matthew Flanagan of Singtel Optus Pty Ltd for for bringing this issue to our attention.

2. Contributing Factors

This issue can occur in the following releases:

SPARC Platform

• Sun SNMP Management Agent "SUNWmasf" 1.4u2 thru 1.5.4 (For Solaris 8, 9 and 10)

Note: The System Management Agent (SMA) SNMP daemon (snmpd(1M)) that ships with Solaris 10 or later is not affected.

To determine the version of "SUNWmasf" on a system, the following command can be run:

$ pkginfo -l SUNWmasf | grep VERSION
VERSION:  1.6,REV=2008.11.17

3. Symptoms

There are no predictable symptoms that would indicate the described issue has been exploited.

4. Workaround

There is no workaround for this issue.  Please see the Resolution section below.

5. Resolution

This issue is addressed in the following release:

SPARC Platform

• Sun SNMP Management Agent ("SUNWmasf") 1.5.5 or later (For Solaris 8, 9 and 10)

Sun SNMP Management Agent is available for download at http://www.sun.com/download/

For more information on Security Sun Alerts, see Technical Instruction ID 213557.

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