Check Point Advisories

Solaris FTP Core Dump Shadow Password Recovery (CVE-2001-0421)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2003-46
Date Published: 27 May 2010
Severity: High
Last Updated: Thursday 27 May, 2010
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2001-0421
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description Solaris is the variant of the UNIX Operating System distributed by Sun Microsystems. Solaris is designed as a scalable operating system for the Intel x86 and Sun Sparc platforms, and operates on machines varying from desktop to enterprise server. There exists a vulnerability in the ftp server included with the Solaris operating system that could allow a local user to recover parts of the shadow file, containing encrypted passwords. This can be done with the CWD ~ command, using a non-standard ftp client which could release sensitive information such as shadowed passwords, or fill the disk partition.

Protection Overview

This protection will detect and block attempts to exploit this vulnerability.

In order for the protection to be activated, update your Security Gateway product to the latest IPS update. For information on how to update IPS, go to SBP-2006-05, click on Protection tab and select the version of your choice.

Security Gateway R80 / R77 / R75

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Solaris FTP Core Dump Shadow Password Recovery protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
  2. Install policy on all Security Gateways.

This protection's log will contain the following information:

Attack Name:  FTP Enforcement Violation.
Attack Information:  Solaris FTP core dump shadow password recovery

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