Sun Security Advisory - A system panic may occur on systems that open and close several UDP end points.
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--></STYLE><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr><td nowrap="" width="3%" valign="top"><b>Document Audience:</b></td><td valign="top" align="left"><cds:audience xmlns:cds="http://cds.central" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">PUBLIC</cds:audience></td></tr><tr><td nowrap="" width="3%" valign="top"><b>Document ID:</b></td><td valign="top" align="left"><cds:source-id xmlns:cds="http://cds.central" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">57728</cds:source-id></td></tr><tr><td nowrap="" width="3%" valign="top"><b>Title:</b></td><td valign="top" align="left">Document ID 57728</td></tr><tr><td nowrap="" width="3%" valign="top"><b>Synopsis:</b></td><td valign="top" align="left">Heavy UDP Usage May Cause a System to Panic </td></tr><tr><td nowrap="" width="3%" valign="top"><b>Update Date:</b></td><td valign="top" align="left">2005-01-26</td></tr></table><hr><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr bgcolor="#999999"><td><font color="#ffffff" size="2"><b>Description</b></font></td><td align="right"><b><a href="#top"><font color="#ffffff" size="2">Top</font></a></b></td></tr></table><b>
Sun(sm) Alert Notification
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Sun Alert ID: 57728
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Synopsis: Heavy UDP Usage May Cause a System to Panic
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Category: Availability
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Product: Solaris
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BugIDs: 4865856
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Avoidance: Patch
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State: Resolved
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Date Released: 24-Jan-2005, 26-Jan-2004
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Date Closed: 26-Jan-2004
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Date Modified: 26-Jan-2004
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1. Impact
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A system panic may occur on systems that open and close several UDP end points.
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2. Contributing Factors
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This issue can occur in the following releases:
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<b>SPARC Platform</b>
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Solaris 8 without patch <a href="/search/document.do?assetkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-117350-16-1">117350-16</a>
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Solaris 9 without patch <a href="/search/document.do?assetkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-117171-15-1">117171-15</a>
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<b>x86 Platform</b>
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Solaris 8 without patch <a href="/search/document.do?assetkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-117351-16-1">117351-16</a>
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Solaris 9 without patch 117172-15
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<b>Note: </b>Solaris 7 is not impacted by this issue.
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3. Symptoms
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If the described issue occurs, the system will panic with a "NULL pointer dereference" message similar to the following:
<p></p><pre> BAD TRAP: type=31 rp=2a100265720 addr=74 mmu_fsr=0
occurred in module "udp" due to a <b>NULL pointer dereference</b> </pre>
A stack trace similar to the following will also be seen:
<p></p><pre> unix: setjmp ()
unix: panicsys+0x44 (0x10592c0,0x2a100bd7518,0x1,0x1,0x8,0x8)
unix: c) ()
unix: panic+0x1c (0x10592c0,0x31,0x2a100bd7760,0x50,0x0,0x30000571578)
unix: die+0x80 (0x31,0x2a100bd7760,0x50,0x0)
unix: trap+0x874 (0x2a100bd7760)
unix: priv_rtt
genunix: releasestr+0x28 (0x0,0x7813fbcc,0x7813f800,0x30011925d00,0x0,0x4)
udp: udp_rput ()
genunix: qdrain_syncq+0x9c (0x3000dfe9ee8,0x3000dfe9d08)
genunix: drain_syncq+0x2d8 (0x3000dfe9ee8,?,?,?,0x2a100bd7d40,0x0)
genunix: syncq_service ()
genunix: taskq_d_thread+0x70 (0x30000619f80,0x0)
unix: thread_start+0x4 (0x30000619f80,0x0,0xc578000000000,0x0,0x0,0x0
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<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr bgcolor="#999999"><td><font color="#ffffff" size="2"><b>Solution Summary</b></font></td><td align="right"><b><a href="#top"><font color="#ffffff" size="2">Top</font></a></b></td></tr></table><b>
4. Relief/Workaround
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There is no workaround. Please see the "Resolution" section below.
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5. Resolution
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This issue is addressed in the following releases:
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<b>SPARC Platform</b>
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Solaris 8 with patch <a href="/search/document.do?assetkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-117350-16-1">117350-16</a> or later
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Solaris 9 with patch <a href="/search/document.do?assetkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-117171-15-1">117171-15</a> or later
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<b>x86 Platform</b>
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Solaris 8 with patch <a href="/search/document.do?assetkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-117351-16-1">117351-16</a> or later
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Solaris 9 with patch 117172-15 or later
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Change History
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26-Jan-2004:
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State: Resolved
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Updated Contributing Factors and Resolution sections
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