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[SA21185] Sun Grid Engine Unspecified Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

2006-08-0200:00:00
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TITLE:
Sun Grid Engine Unspecified Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA21185

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/21185/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation, DoS

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
Sun Grid Engine (SGE) 6.x
http://secunia.com/product/6943/
Sun Grid Engine (SGE) 5.x
http://secunia.com/product/2666/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Sun N1 Grid Engine, which can be
exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service)
or gain escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified boundary error and
can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow.

Successful exploitation crashes the qmaster or execd process and
shuts down the grid service and may also allow execution of arbitrary
code with escalated privileges.

SOLUTION:
Apply patches.

– SPARC Platform –

N1 Grid Engine 6.0 (32-bit Solaris):
Apply patch 123037-01 or later.

N1 Grid Engine 6.0 (64-bit Solaris):
Apply patch 123038-01 or later.

N1 Grid Engine 6.0 (32-bit Solaris) NON-Solaris Package format:
Apply patch 123041-01 or later.

N1 Grid Engine 6.0 (64-bit Solaris) NON-Solaris Package format:
Apply patch 123042-01 or later.

– x86 Platform –

N1 Grid Engine 6.0:
Apply patch 123039-01 or later.

N1 Grid Engine 6.0 NON-Solaris Package format:
Apply patch 123043-01 or later.

N1 Grid Engine 6.0 (x64):
Apply patch 123040-01 or later.

N1 Grid Engine 6.0 (x64) NON-Solaris Package format:
Apply patch 123044-01 or later.

– Linux –

N1 Grid Engine 6.0:
Apply patch 123045-01 or later.

N1 Grid Engine 6.0 (x64):
Apply patch 123046-01 or later.

– Windows –

N1 Grid Engine 6.0:
Apply patch 123052-01 or later.

– HP-UX –

N1 Grid Engine 6.0:
Apply patch 123050-01 or later.

– AIX –

N1 Grid Engine 6.0 (for AIX 4.3):
Apply patch 123047-01 or later.

N1 Grid Engine 6.0 (for AIX 5.1):
Apply patch 123048-01 or later.

– Mac OS –

N1 Grid Engine 6.0:
Apply patch 123049-01 or later.

– IRIX –

N1 Grid Engine 6.0 (for IRIX 6.5):
Apply patch 123051-01 or later.

NOTE: Sun Grid Engine 5.3 requires an upgrade to N1 Grid Engine 6.0
with the appropriate patches to resolve this issue.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102322-1


About:
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everybody keeping their systems up to date against the latest
vulnerabilities.

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