-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- ________________________________________________________________________________ Sun Microsystems, Inc. Security Bulletin Bulletin Number: #00213 Date: December 14, 2001 Cross-Ref: CERT Advisory CA-2001-34 Title: login ________________________________________________________________________________ The information contained in this Security Bulletin is provided "AS IS." Sun makes no warranties of any kind whatsoever with respect to the information contained in this Security Bulletin. ALL EXPRESS OR IMPLIED CONDITIONS, REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES, INCLUDING ANY WARRANTY OF NON-INFRINGEMENT OR IMPLIED WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, ARE HEREBY DISCLAIMED AND EXCLUDED TO THE EXTENT ALLOWED BY APPLICABLE LAW. IN NO EVENT WILL SUN MICROSYSTEMS, INC. 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Sun recommends that you install the patches listed in section 4 immediately on systems running SunOS 5.8, 5.7, 5.6, and 5.5.1. 2. Who is Affected Vulnerable: SunOS 5.8, 5.8_x86, 5.7, 5.7_x86, 5.6, 5.6_x86, 5.5.1, and 5.5.1_x86 3. Understanding the Vulnerability The login command is used at the beginning of each terminal session to identify oneself to the system. login is invoked by the system when a connection is first established, after the previous user has terminated the login shell by issuing the exit command. A buffer overflow has been discovered in login which may be exploited by a local or a remote attacker to gain root access on the affected system. This issue was discovered by ISS X-Force who published an advisory at: http://xforce.iss.net/alerts/advise105.php CERT Advisory CA-2001-34 is available from: http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-34.html 4. List of Patches A Sun Security Bulletin is usually issued after patches are available on SunSolve. 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