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Sun Solaris Event Port Local Denial of Service
Secunia Advisory: SA30653
Release Date: 2008-06-12
Last Update: 2008-06-20
Popularity: 4,481 views

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

OS:Sun Solaris 10

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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).

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error in the event port implementation. This can be exploited to cause a system panic by executing a specially crafted application that submits and retrieves user-defined events from a port.

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

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