Security Advisory SA22103 - Solaris IPv6 Denial of Service Vulnerability

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Secunia Advisory SA22103

Solaris IPv6 Denial of Service Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory

SA22103

Release Date

2006-09-26

Last Update

2006-09-29

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Criticality level

Moderately critical

Impact

DoS

Where

From remote

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Solution Status

Vendor Patch

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Operating System

Sun Solaris 10.x

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CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2006-5013 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers

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 unspecified error when processing certain IPv6 packets. This can be exploited to cause a system panic by sending specially crafted IPv6 packets to an affected system.

The vulnerability affects Sun Solaris 10 for the x86 platform with IPv6 enabled.

Solution
Disable IPv6 or apply patch 118855-16 or later.
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Original Advisory
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102568-1

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