Solaris security logging Vulnerability

BID:437

Info

Solaris security logging Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 437
Class: Environment Error
CVE:
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Jan 12 1998 12:00AM
Updated: Jan 12 1998 12:00AM
Credit: First posted to BugTraq by Ruth Milner [VLA] <[email protected]> on January 12, 1998. The discussion section of this vulnerability was taken directly from Ruth's BugTraq post.
Vulnerable: Sun Solaris 2.6_x86
Sun Solaris 2.6
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Solaris security logging Vulnerability

Under Solaris 2.x, login failure information is not all logged in one place. The tty and remote source host, if any, are written to /var/adm/messages, while the account name that was attempted, along with the tty but *not* the source host, is logged in /var/adm/loginlog *if it exists*. /var/adm/loginlog is not created by default when the OS is installed; it has to be touched and should be mode 600.

Solaris 2.6 does not write anything in /var/adm/loginlog even if it does exist. This has been assigned bug ID 4096961.

Exploit / POC

Solaris security logging Vulnerability

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Solution / Fix

Solaris security logging Vulnerability

Solution:
Patches are available to all Sun customers at http://sunsolve.sun.com


Sun Solaris 2.6

Sun Solaris 2.6_x86

References

Solaris security logging Vulnerability

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