TITLE:
Sun Solaris SCTP Denial of Service Weaknesses

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA17198

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/17198/

CRITICAL:
Not critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
Local system

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

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

The weaknesses are caused due to unspecified errors in the SCTP
socket option processing. This may be exploited to panic a vulnerable
system.

The weaknesses have been reported in Solaris 10 on SPARC and x86
architectures.

SOLUTION:
Apply patches.

-- SPARC Platform --

Solaris 10:

Apply patch 119075-09 or later.

-- x86 Platform --

Solaris 10:

Apply patch 119076-08 or later.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-101881-1

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