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Sun Solaris IP Packet Denial of Service
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA24857
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Release Date:
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2007-04-13
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Last Update:
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2007-08-24
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Popularity:
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8,983 views
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Critical:
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Not critical
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Impact:
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DoS
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Unpatched
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| OS: | Sun Solaris 8
Sun Solaris 9
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2007-2045
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Description:
Sun has acknowledged a vulnerability in Sun Solaris, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to a flaw when processing certain IP packets. This can be exploited to cause increased CPU usage by sending specially crafted IP packets to network services.
The vulnerability is reported in Sun Solaris 8 and 9 for both the SPARC and x86 platforms.
Solution:
The vendor removed the previous patches due to problems. Please see http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103023-1 for details.
Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by the vendor.
Changelog:
2007-04-18: Added CVE reference.
2007-08-24: Updated "Solution" section due to problems with the previous patches. Added additional link to the vendor.
Original Advisory:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102866-1
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103023-1
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