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TITLE:
Sun Solaris SVM Denial of Service Weakness

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA27519

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27519/

CRITICAL:
Not critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
Local system

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

DESCRIPTION:
A weakness has been reported in Sun Solaris, which can be exploited
by malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The weakness is caused due to an unspecified error in the Solaris
Volume Manager (SVM) ioctl(2) interface and can be exploited to cause
a system panic. No further information is available.

The weakness is reported in the following versions:

SPARC Platform:
* Solaris 9 with patch 113026-03 or later or patch 113073-11 or
later, and without patch 116669-31
* Solaris 10 without patch 124256-03

x86 Platform:
* Solaris 9 with patch 113994-02 or later or patch 118559-12 or
later, and without patch 122371-07
* Solaris 10 without patch 126257-04

SOLUTION:
Apply patches.

SPARC Platform:
* Solaris 9 - patch 116669-31 or later
* Solaris 10 - patch 124256-03 or later

x86 Platform:
* Solaris 9 - patch 122371-07 or later
* Solaris 10 - patch 126257-04 or later

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

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103143-1

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