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TITLE:
Sun Solaris ATA Disk Driver IOCTLs Denial of Service

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA26558

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/26558/

CRITICAL:
Not critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
Local system

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

DESCRIPTION:
Some security issues have been reported in Sun Solaris, which can be
exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of
Service).

The security issues are caused due to errors within the handling of
certain IOCTLs sent to the ATA disk driver, which can be exploited to
cause a system panic.

The security issues are reported in Sun Solaris 8, 9, and 10 for the
x86 platform with ATA disks installed. The SPARC platform is not
affected.

SOLUTION:
Apply patches.

Sun Solaris 8:
Apply patch 109798-04.
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-109798-04-1

Sun Solaris 9:
Apply patch 117122-03:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-117122-03-1

Sun Solaris 10:
Apply patch 123779-02:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-123779-02-1

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

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102988-1

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