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TITLE:
Sun Solaris Hyper-Threading Support Information Disclosure

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA15559

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/15559/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Exposure of sensitive information

WHERE:
Local system

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Sun Solaris 9
http://secunia.com/product/95/
Sun Solaris 8
http://secunia.com/product/94/
Sun Solaris 7
http://secunia.com/product/93/
Sun Solaris 10
http://secunia.com/product/4813/

DESCRIPTION:
Sun Microsystems has acknowledged a vulnerability in Solaris, which
can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain knowledge of
sensitive information.

For more information:
SA15348

NOTE: This does not affect the SPARC platform.

SOLUTION:
The vendor recommends either disabling Hyper-Threading support, using
the dynamic CPU off-lining functionality, or using the Containers
feature in Solaris 10 (see vendor advisory for additional
information).

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Colin Percival

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-101739-1

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA15348:
http://secunia.com/advisories/15348/

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