December 2006

ID: 00843
Ref: 799/2006
Date: 04 December 2006:11:35:10
Version: 1

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Title: Sun Alert Notification: Sun Alert ID: 102739 - Certain Solaris 10 Patches May Cause usermod(1M) and Related Commands to Terminate With an Error
Abstract: Installation of certain Solaris 10 patches as listed in section 2. below may cause the following commands to fail.
Vendors affected: Sun
Operating systems affected: Sun
Applications affected: Sun

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Sun Alert Notification: Sun Alert ID: 102739 - Certain Solaris 10 Patches May Cause
usermod(1M) and Related Commands to Terminate With an Error

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Installation of certain Solaris 10 patches as listed in section 2.
below may cause the following commands to fail.


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ESB-2006.0882 -- [Solaris]
Certain Solaris 10 Patches May Cause usermod(1M) and Related
Commands to Terminate With an Error
4 December 2006

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Product: useradd
usermod
userdel
roleadd
rolemod
roledel
groupadd
groupmod
groupdel
Publisher: Sun Microsystems
Operating System: Solaris 10
Impact: Denial of Service
Access: Existing Account

Original Bulletin:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/printfriendly.do?assetkey=1-26-102739-1

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Sun(sm) Alert Notification
* Sun Alert ID: 102739
* Synopsis: Certain Solaris 10 Patches May Cause usermod(1M) and
Related Commands to Terminate With an Error
* Category: Availability
* Product: Solaris 10 Operating System
* BugIDs: 6489363
* Avoidance: Workaround
* State: Workaround
* Date Released: 01-Dec-2006
* Date Closed:
* Date Modified:

1. Impact

Installation of certain Solaris 10 patches as listed in section 2.
below may cause the following commands to fail.

useradd(1M)
usermod(1M)
userdel(1M)
roleadd(1M)
rolemod(1M)
roledel(1M)
groupadd(1M)
groupmod(1M)
groupdel(1M)

This issue is due to these patches requiring a version of the Kernel
patch which is not yet available.

2. Contributing Factors

This issue occurs on the following releases:

SPARC Platform
* Solaris 10 with patch 120050-03 or 120050-04

x86 Platform
* Solaris 10 with patch 120051-03 or 120051-04

Note: Solaris 8 and 9 are not impacted by this issue.

3. Symptoms

When any of the affected commands are used, an error similar to the
following will be seen:
ld.so.1: useradd: fatal: libc.so.1: version `SUNW_1.22.2' not found (required by file /usr/sbin/useradd)
ld.so.1: useradd: fatal: libc.so.1: open failed: No such file or directory
Killed

This applies to these commands:

/usr/sbin/useradd
/usr/sbin/usermod
/usr/sbin/userdel
/usr/sbin/roleadd
/usr/sbin/rolemod
/usr/sbin/roledel
/usr/sbin/groupadd
/usr/sbin/groupmod
/usr/sbin/groupdel

The error text is the same for all commands, except for the command
name shown in the error.

4. Relief/Workaround

To avoid this issue, do not install the affected patches listed in
section 2.

If these patches have been installed, they can be backed out using
patchrm(1M).

5. Resolution

A final resolution is pending completion.

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