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TITLE:
Sun Solaris X11 Multiple Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA25006

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/25006/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Exposure of sensitive information, Privilege escalation, DoS

WHERE:
Local system

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Sun Solaris 8
http://secunia.com/product/94/
Sun Solaris 9
http://secunia.com/product/95/
Sun Solaris 10
http://secunia.com/product/4813/

DESCRIPTION:
Sun has acknowledged some vulnerabilities in Solaris, which can be
exploited malicious, local users to disclose sensitive information,
cause a DoS (Denial of Service), and gain escalated privileges.

For more information see vulnerabilities #1 to #3 in:
SA24741

The vulnerabilities affect Solaris 8, 9, and 10 for both the SPARC
and the x86 platform.

SOLUTION:
The vendor recommends to remove the setuid bit and the setgid bit
from the Xorg and Xsun server, and applications using the library
(see vendor advisory for details).

Grant only trusted users access to affected applications.

A final resolution is pending completion.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102886-1

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA24741:
http://secunia.com/advisories/24741/

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