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Sun Solaris Floating Point Context Switch Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA29728
Release Date: 2008-04-11
Last Update: 2008-04-15
Popularity: 5,313 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Manipulation of data
DoS
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Sun Solaris 10
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) or to manipulate certain data.

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error in the floating point context switch implementation. This can be exploited to terminate random applications, cause incorrect floating point results in arbitrary applications, or alter the normal functionality of the memcpy(3C), memset(3C), and memmove(3C) functions in arbitrary applications.

NOTE: The impact on the functionality of the memcpy(3C), memset(3C), and memmove(3C) functions is only present on Solaris 10.

The vulnerability is reported in Solaris 9 and 10 for the x86 platform.

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