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TITLE:
Solaris Net-SNMP Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA23058

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/23058/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From local network

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

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

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error and can be
exploited to disable the snmpd daemon.

The vulnerability is reported in Solaris 10 with the "SUNWsmagt"
package installed. Other versions of Sun Solaris may also be
affected, if users built or installed a vulnerable version of the
Net-SNMP package.

SOLUTION:
The vendor recommends to stop the Net-SNMP service from listening on
TCP port 161.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102725-1

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