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Sun Solaris ICU Regular Expressions Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA29291
Release Date: 2008-03-10
Popularity: 3,510 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: DoS
System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Sun Solaris 10
Sun Solaris 9

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CVE reference:CVE-2007-4770
CVE-2007-4771


Description:
Sun has acknowledged some vulnerabilities in Solaris, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or potentially compromise an application using the ICU library.

For more information:
SA28575

The vulnerabilities have been reported in Solaris 9 and 10 for both the SPARC and the x86 platform.

Solution:
Apply patches.

-- SPARC platform --

Solaris 9:
Apply patch 114677-15 or later.
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/docume...setkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-114677-15-1

Solaris 10:
Apply patch 119810-05 or later.
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/docume...setkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-119810-05-1

-- X86 platform --

Solaris 9:
Apply patch 114678-15 or later.
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/docume...setkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-114678-15-1

Solaris 10:
Apply patch 119811-05 or later.
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/docume...setkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-119811-05-1

Original Advisory:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-233922-1

Other References:
SA28575:
http://secunia.com/advisories/28575/


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