Oracle Patches Solaris with 298 Security Bugs and 10 Hole Exploited by NSA Spyware Tool

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Yesterday Oracle has emitted a huge set of 299 security fixes for their software – also including a patch for a vulnerability exploited by an NSA leaked tool that can hijack the Solaris systems.

You can find the details of this massive April dump here: Oracle describes their updates as “critical,” and urges all the admins to install them “without any delay.”

Among the trove is a patch for CVE-2017-3622, a local privilege escalation hole in the Common Desktop Environment on Solaris 10 that is exploited by the NSA’s now-public EXTREMEPARR tool to seize control of vulnerable machines. This flaw isn’t present in Solaris 11, according to Oracle. That leaves Solaris 7 to 9 potentially vulnerable on Sparc and x86; these operating systems are not supported by Oracle, so you’re on your own with those. Another leaked NSA tool, EBBISLAND aka EBBSHAVE, attempts to exploit a kernel RPC vulnerability (CVE-2017-3623) in Solaris 6 to 10, on x86 and Sparc, to give the attacker a remote root shell. This flaw is not present on Solaris 11 nor on Solaris 10 with critical patches installed since January 21, 2012, nor systems running Solaris 10 Update 11. Again, that leaves older unsupported Solaris boxes on their own.

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