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Sun Solaris Thread Context Handling Denial of Service
Secunia Advisory: SA26950
Release Date: 2007-09-27
Last Update: 2007-10-01
Popularity: 7,876 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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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Sun Solaris, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to a race condition error in the Solaris kernel when handling thread contexts and can be exploited to cause a system panic.

The vulnerability is reported in Solaris 8, 9, and 10 for both the SPARC and x86 platforms.

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