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Sun Solaris syslogd Denial of Service
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA8944
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Release Date:
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2003-06-05
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Last Update:
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2005-02-10
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Popularity:
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9,510 views
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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DoS
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Where:
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From local network
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| OS: | Sun Solaris 2.6
Sun Solaris 7
Sun Solaris 8
Sun Solaris 9
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| Advisory Content (Page 1 of 3) | [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] | |
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Description:
A vulnerability has been identified in Sun Solaris, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
Reportedly, the syslogd service can't handle UDP packets larger than 1024 bytes due to a boundary error. This can be exploited to crash the service.
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