TITLE:
Sun Solaris in.iked ISAKMP IKE Message Processing Denial of Service

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA17554

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/17554/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

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

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

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the "libike" library
when processing IKE messages. This can be exploited to crash the
"in.iked" process, which causes the IPSec key management services
fail.

The vulnerability is related to:
SA17553

The vulnerability has been reported in Solaris 9 and 10 on both SPARC
and x86 platforms.

SOLUTION:
Preliminary T-patches are available.
http://sunsolve.sun.com/tpatches

-- SPARC Platform --

Solaris 9:
Apply T-patch T113451-10.

Solaris 10:
Apply T-patch T118371-06.

-- x86 Platform --

Solaris 9:
Apply T-patch T114435-09.

Solaris 10:
Apply T-patch T118372-06.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102040-1

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA17553:
http://secunia.com/advisories/17553/

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