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TITLE:
Solaris Xorg X Render Extension Denial of Service

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA25121

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/25121/

CRITICAL:
Not critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From local network

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

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

The vulnerability is caused due to a divide-by-zero error in the
handling of trapezoid struct data members, which can be exploited to
cause the process to end.

The vulnerability is reported in Solaris 9 with JDS release 2 and
Solaris 10 for the x86 platform.

SOLUTION:
The vendor recommends to disable the Render extension (see vendor
advisory for details).

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Rapid7.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Sun:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102901-1

Rapid7:
http://www.rapid7.com/advisories/R7-0027.jsp

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