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Sun Solaris SCTP Denial of Service Weaknesses Advisory Available in Danish 

Secunia Advisory: SA17198  
Release Date: 2005-10-14

Critical:
Not critical
Impact: DoS
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Sun Solaris 10


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Description:
Some weaknesses have been reported in Solaris, which potentially can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The weaknesses are caused due to unspecified errors in the SCTP socket option processing. This may be exploited to panic a vulnerable system.

The weaknesses have been reported in Solaris 10 on SPARC and x86 architectures.

Solution:
Apply patches.

-- SPARC Platform --

Solaris 10:

Apply patch 119075-09 or later.

-- x86 Platform --

Solaris 10:

Apply patch 119076-08 or later.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by vendor.

Original Advisory:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-101881-1



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