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Sun Solaris "sh" Process Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA19627
Release Date: 2006-04-12
Last Update: 2006-04-16
Popularity: 8,823 views

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

OS:Sun Solaris 10
Sun Solaris 8
Sun Solaris 9

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-1780


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 in the Bourne shell when creating temporary files and can be exploited to crash "sh" processes on a system.

Solution:
Apply patches.

-- SPARC Platform --

Solaris 8:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/docume...setkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-109324-09-1

Solaris 9:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/docume...setkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-118535-03-1

Solaris 10:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/docume...setkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-121004-01-1

-- x86 Platform --

Solaris 8:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/docume...setkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-109325-09-1

Solaris 9:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/docume...setkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-118536-03-1

Solaris 10:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/docume...setkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-121005-01-1

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

Changelog:
2006-04-16: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102282-1


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