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Sun Solaris libike Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA20050
Release Date: 2006-05-09
Last Update: 2006-05-15
Popularity: 8,618 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Sun Solaris 10
Sun Solaris 9

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-2298


Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Solaris, which can be exploited by malicious users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error in the libike library. This can be exploited to crash in.iked or cause it to send invalid data to a peer system that may crash when attempting an IKE exchange with a malformed payload.

Solution:
Apply patches.

-- SPARC Platform --

Solaris 9:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/docume...setkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-113451-11-1

Solaris 10:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/docume...setkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-118371-07-1

-- x86 Platform --

Solaris 9:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/docume...setkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-114435-10-1

Solaris 10:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/docume...setkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-118372-07-1

Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by the vendor.

Changelog:
2006-05-15: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102246-1


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