Description: Sun has acknowledged some vulnerabilities in Sun Solaris, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or compromise a vulnerable system.
The vulnerabilities are caused due to the use of a vulnerable version of the OpenSSL library.
The vulnerabilities are reported in Sun Solaris 9 and Sun Solaris 10 (optionally with the Solaris Data Encryption Kit) for both the x86 and SPARC platforms.
Changelog: 2006-11-14: Vendor updates advisory and removes Solaris 9 as affected.
2007-06-27: Updated Advisory to reflect changes and affected products in the vendor advisory. Updated "Solution" section.
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