Sun Solaris ARP Flooding Denial of Service Vulnerability - Advisories

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Sun Solaris ARP Flooding Denial of Service Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory:	SA14286
Release Date:	2005-02-15
Last Update:	2005-02-18

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

OS:	Sun Solaris 7 Sun Solaris 8 Sun Solaris 9


CVE reference:	CVE-2005-0447 (Secunia mirror)

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Description: A vulnerability has been reported in Sun Solaris, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service). The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the handling of ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) packets and can be exploited by flooding the system with a large amount of ARP packets. Successful exploitation causes the system to become unresponsive. Solution: Apply patches. -- SPARC Platform -- Solaris 7: http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/docume...setkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-106541-39-1 Solaris 8: http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/docume...setkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-116965-05-1 Solaris 9: http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/docume...setkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-114344-09-1 -- x86 Platform -- Solaris 7: http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/docume...setkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-106542-39-1 Solaris 8: http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/docume...setkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-116966-05-1 Solaris 9: http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/docume...setkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-114345-08-1 Provided and/or discovered by: Reported by vendor. Changelog: 2005-02-18: Added CVE reference. Original Advisory: http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-57673-1



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