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Re: Solaris patchadd(1) (3) symlink vulnerabilty

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Potter)
Wed Dec 20 16:32:27 2000

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Solutions:

Well it is good policy to add patches in single user mode IF YOU CAN. I
recall seeing a warning in "install_cluster" to install in single usermode
if you can.... Maybe that was a while ago when they used to have "jumbo"
patches.

1) init S
2) patchadd



>
>Race Condition
>remote NO
>local YES
>
>Vulnerable: I only checked Solaris 2.7 sparc with latest install_cluster

what arch? sun4u?
uname -a ?

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