Sun has acknowledged a vulnerability in Solaris, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions and cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error within the Solaris Internet Protocol implementation. This can be exploited to bypass certain firewall policies or cause a kernel panic by sending specially crafted packets to a vulnerable system.

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

Solution
Apply patches.
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Provided and/or discovered by
The vendor credits Mark Dowd, IBM Internet Security Systems X-Force

Changelog
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Original Advisory
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-200183-1

Alternate/detailed remediation
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