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Sun Solaris "/proc" Denial of Service Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA19128
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Release Date:
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2006-03-06
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Last Update:
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2006-03-14
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Popularity:
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13,013 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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Local system
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| OS: | Sun Solaris 10
Sun Solaris 8
Sun Solaris 9
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| Advisory Content (Page 1 of 3) | [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] | |
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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Solaris, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error within the pagedata subsystem of the process file system "/proc". This can be exploited by an unprivileged user to cause the system to become unresponsive, and resulting in a DoS.
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