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Sun Solaris rpcbind Denial of Service
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA23700
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Release Date:
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2007-01-10
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Last Update:
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2008-10-22
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Popularity:
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8,247 views
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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DoS
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Where:
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From local network
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| OS: | Sun Solaris 8
Sun Solaris 9
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2007-0165
CVE-2008-4619
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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 in libnsl when handling malformed RPC requests, and can be exploited to kill the rpcbind server.
The vulnerability is reported in Sun Solaris 8 and 9 for the SPARC and x86 platforms.
Solution:
-- SPARC Platform --
Solaris 8:
Apply patch 108993-65 or later.
Solaris 9:
Apply patch 113319-27 or later.
-- x86 Platform --
Solaris 8:
Apply patch 108994-65 or later.
Solaris 9:
Apply patch 113719-21 or later.
Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits Anil Kumar, BlueLane Research Team.
Changelog:
2007-01-17: Added CVE reference.
2008-10-22: Added CVE reference.
Original Advisory:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102713-1
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