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Sun Solaris Auditing Extended File Attributes Race Condition Denial of Service
Secunia Advisory: SA36042
Release Date: 2009-07-28
Last Update: 2009-07-31
Popularity: 1,181 views

Critical:
Not critical
Impact: 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).

The vulnerability is caused due to a race condition in Solaris Auditing when handling extended file attributes, which can be exploited to cause a system panic.

Successful exploitation requires that Solaris Auditing is enabled.

The vulnerability is reported in Solaris 9 and 10 for both the SPARC and x86 platforms.

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