TITLE:
Sun Solaris Denial of Service and Exposure of Filenames

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA17157

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/17157/

CRITICAL:
Not critical

IMPACT:
Exposure of system information, DoS

WHERE:
Local system

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

DESCRIPTION:
A weakness and a security issue have been reported in Solaris, which
potentially can be exploited by malicious, local users to disclose
system information and cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

1) An unspecified error in the "privilege management" feature of the
file system may be exploited to panic a vulnerable system.

2) An unspecified security issue in the Process File System (procfs)
may be exploited to disclose filename information in protected
directories.

The weakness and the security issue have been reported in Solaris 10
on SPARC and x86 architectures.

SOLUTION:
Apply patches.

-- SPARC Platform --

Solaris 10:

Apply patch 118822-19 or later.

-- x86 Platform --

Solaris 10:

Apply patch 118844-19 or later.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-101895-1
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-101949-1

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