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TITLE:
Sun Solaris 9 Auditing BSM Denial of Service

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA25081

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/25081/

CRITICAL:
Not critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
Local system

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Sun Solaris 9
http://secunia.com/product/95/

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 when auditing
certain audit classes using Solaris Auditing (BSM) and can be
exploited cause a system panic.

The vulnerability affects Solaris 9 on both SPARC and x86 platforms.

SOLUTION:
-- SPARC Platform --

Solaris 9:
Apply patch 122300-06 or later.

-- x86 Platform --

Solaris 9:
Apply patch 122301-06 or later.

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

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102900-1

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