TITLE:
Sun Solaris "sh" Process Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA19627

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/19627/

CRITICAL:
Not critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
Local system

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Sun Solaris 10
http://secunia.com/product/4813/
Sun Solaris 8
http://secunia.com/product/94/
Sun Solaris 9
http://secunia.com/product/95/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in 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 Bourne
shell when creating temporary files and can be exploited to crash "sh"
processes on a system.

SOLUTION:
Apply patches.

-- SPARC Platform --

Solaris 8:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-109324-09-1

Solaris 9:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-118535-03-1

Solaris 10:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-121004-01-1

-- x86 Platform --

Solaris 8:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-109325-09-1

Solaris 9:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-118536-03-1

Solaris 10:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-121005-01-1

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102282-1

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