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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2008.0620 -- [Solaris]
Multiple security vulnerabilities in the Solaris X Server Extensions may
lead to a Denial of Service (DoS) condition or allow
Execution of Arbitrary Code
23 June 2008
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: X Server
Publisher: Sun Microsystems
Operating System: Solaris
Impact: Execute Arbitrary Code/Commands
Denial of Service
Access: Existing Account
CVE Names: CVE-2008-2362 CVE-2008-2361 CVE-2008-2360
CVE-2008-1379 CVE-2008-1377
Ref: ESB-2008.0601
Original Bulletin:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/printfriendly.do?assetkey=1-66-238686-1
Revision History: June 23 2008: Resolution Added
June 16 2008: Initial Release
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Solution Type: Sun Alert
Solution 238686 : Multiple security vulnerabilities in the Solaris
X Server Extensions may lead to a Denial of Service (DoS) condition or
allow Execution of Arbitrary Code
Bug ID: 6683567, 6683568
Product
Solaris 8 Operating System, Solaris 9 Operating System, Solaris 10
Operating System, OpenSolaris
Date of Workaround Release: 12-Jun-2008
SA Document Body
Multiple security vulnerabilities in the Solaris X Server Extensions may
lead to a Denial of Service (DoS) condition or allow Execution of
Arbitrary Code
1. Impact
Multiple integer, heap and buffer overflow security vulnerabilities
exist in the Render, RECORD, Security, and MIT-SHM Extensions to the
Solaris X11 display server (Xorg(1) and Xsun(1)) and the Solaris X11
print server (Xprt(1)). These vulnerabilities may allow a local or
remote unprivileged user who is authorized (via xhost(1) or xauth(1))
to connect to the X server and execute arbitrary code with root
privileges, access arbitrary memory within the X server's address
space, or crash the X11 display server process. The ability to crash
the X11 display server is a type of Denial of Service (DoS).
These issues are described in the following documents:
CVE-2008-2360 at
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2360
CVE-2008-2361 at
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2361
CVE-2008-2362 at
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2362
CVE-2008-1379 at
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1379
CVE-2008-1377 at
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1377
2. Contributing Factors
These issues can occur in the following releases:
SPARC Platform
* Solaris 8
* Solaris 9
* Solaris 10 without patches 119059-44 and 125719-12
* OpenSolaris based upon builds snv_01 or later
x86 Platform
* Solaris 8
* Solaris 9
* Solaris 9 with JDS release 2
* Solaris 10 without patches 119060-43 and 125720-23
* OpenSolaris based upon builds snv_01 or later
Notes:
1. To determine if JDS release 2 is installed on a Solaris 9 x86
system, the following command can be run:
% grep distributor-version /usr/share/gnome-about/gnome-version.xml
<distributor-version>Sun Java Desktop System, Release 2</distributor-version>
2. Only OpenSolaris installations including the affected binary
"/usr/X11/bin/i386/Xorg" are impacted by this issue.
3. OpenSolaris distributions may include additional bug fixes above
and beyond the base build from which it was derived. The base build
can be derived as follows:
$ uname -a
SunOS osolsys 5.11 snv_86 i86pc i386 i86pc
4. To determine if the effected X Server extensions are enabled on a
running X server, the following command can be run:
$ xdpyinfo | egrep "MIT-SHM|RENDER|SECURITY|RECORD"
MIT-SHM
RECORD
RENDER
SECURITY
On Solaris 10, in case of Xsun(1), the issues reported in
CVE-2008-2360, CVE-2008-2361 and CVE-2008-2362 will not be applicable
by default. They will be applicable only if the user has turned on the
RENDER extension support by adding "+xrender" CLI option to Xsun in
which case the user can work around it by removing the "+xrender"
option. Also, these issues are not applicable for Xsun(1) server on
Solaris 8 as the RENDER extension support is not present.
3. Symptoms
There are no predictable symptoms that would indicate that these
issues have been exploited to execute arbitrary code.
If any of the described issues do occur, the X server will exit and
may generate an error message about a segmentation fault, and may also
write a core(4) file.
4. Workaround
To work around the described issues for the Xorg(1) server, the
affected X Server extensions may be disabled.
The following command may be used to disable Xorg server extensions:
$ /usr/X11/bin/Xorg -extension <Name of Extension>
This change will be valid until the Xorg server is restarted, for
example on logout. The command will need to be repeated for each new
instance of the Xorg server.
For example, the MIT-SHM extension may be disabled as follows:
$ /usr/X11/bin/Xorg -extension MIT-SHM
The X Server extensions may also be disabled by editing the
xorg.conf(4) file. For example, to disable the MIT-SHM extension, the
following lines may be added to the xorg.conf(4) file:
Section "Extensions"
Option "MIT-SHM" "disable"
Option "RENDER" "disable"
Option "SECURITY" "disable"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Disable "record"
EndSection
Notes:
1. After disabling X Server extensions, applications requiring those
extensions may not run.
2. Only certain extensions can be disabled by the user. To list all
extensions that can be disabled, the following command can be run:
$ /usr/X11/bin/Xorg -extension help
For Xsun(1) server, there is no workaround to the issues described in
CVE-2008-1377 and CVE-2008-1379.
To work around the issues for Xsun(1) server with Render support
enabled on Solaris 10 reported in CVE-2008-2360, CVE-2008-2361 and
CVE-2008-2362 with Render support enabled, remove the "+xrender"
option to Xsun.
On Solaris 9, there is no workaround for the issues reported in
CVE-2008-2360, CVE-2008-2361 and CVE-2008-2362 for Xsun(1) server.
The documented issues can be worked around by using the
"noexec_user_stack" options to defeat the most common form of buffer
overflow attacks that store executable exploit code on the stack. This
can be achieved by editing the "/etc/system" file and adding the
lines:
set noexec_user_stack = 1
set noexec_user_stack_log = 1
A reboot will be necessary in order for the above change to take
effect. See system(4) for information on modifying the system
configuration information file.
The following T-patch and Interim Security Relief (ISRs) are available
from http://www.sunsolve.sun.com/tpatches:
SPARC Platform
* Solaris 8 T-patch T119067-10 (for Xsun(1))
* Solaris 9 ISR IDR138542-01 (for Xsun(1))
x86 Platform
* Solaris 8 T-patch T119068-10 (for Xsun(1))
* Solaris 9 ISR IDR138543-01 (for Xsun(1))
* Solaris 9 ISR IDR138544-01 (for Xorg(1))
Note: This document refers to one or more Interim Security Relief
(ISRs) which are designed to address the concerns identified herein.
Sun has limited experience with these (ISRs) due to their interim
nature. As such, you should only install the (ISRs) on systems meeting
the configurations described above. Sun may release full patches at a
later date, however, Sun is under no obligation whatsoever to create,
release, or distribute any such patch.
5. Resolution
This issue is addressed in the following releases:
SPARC Platform
* Solaris 10 with patches 119059-44 or later and 125719-12 or later
x86 Platform
* Solaris 10 with patches 119060-43 or later and 125720-23 or later
A final resolution is pending completion.
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