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Sun Solaris Firewall Security Bypass and Denial of Service
Secunia Advisory: SA29100
Release Date: 2008-02-25
Last Update: 2008-03-05
Popularity: 8,163 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Security Bypass
DoS
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Sun Solaris 10
Sun Solaris 8
Sun Solaris 9

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Description:
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.

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