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Sun Service Tag Registry Local Denial of Service Weakness
Secunia Advisory: SA30545
Release Date: 2008-06-05
Last Update: 2009-03-24
Popularity: 4,411 views

Critical:
Not critical
Impact: DoS
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Sun Solaris 10

Software:Sun Service Tag 1.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
A weakness has been reported in Sun Service Tag, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The weakness is caused due to an unspecified error in the Sun Service Tag Registry, which can be exploited to completely fill the "/var" file system.

Successful exploitation may result in a DoS for applications depending on the "/var" file system.

The weakness is reported in Sun Service Tag version 1.0, 1.1., and 1.1.1 for Solaris, version 1.1 and 1.1.1 for Enterprise Linux, and Solaris 10 for the SPARC and x86 platforms.

NOTE: This weakness does not affect Service Tag for the Windows platform.

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