TITLE:
Sun Solaris in.named Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA17460

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/17460/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

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

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Solaris, which potentially can
be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in "in.named" when
handling queries that the server is not authoritative for. This can
be exploited to cause the server to make unnecessary queries to DNS
root servers for IPv6 address records that have already been cached
by the server.

The vulnerability has been reported in Solaris 9.

SOLUTION:
Apply patches.

-- SPARC Platform --

Solaris 9:
Apply patch 112970-09 or later.

-- x86 Platform --

Solaris 9:
Apply with patch 114354-08 or later.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102030-1

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