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TITLE:
Sun Solaris Kernel Statistics Retrieval Denial of Service

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA27306

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27306/

CRITICAL:
Not critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
Local system

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Sun Solaris 8
http://secunia.com/product/94/
Sun Solaris 9
http://secunia.com/product/95/
Sun Solaris 10
http://secunia.com/product/4813/

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

The vulnerabilities are caused due to unspecified errors within the
kernel statistics retrieval implementation, which can be exploited to
cause a "recursive mutex_enter" or "deadlock" panic.

The vulnerabilities are reported in Sun Solaris 8, 9, and 10 for both
the x86 and SPARC platform.

SOLUTION:
Apply patches.

-- SPARC Platform --

Solaris 8:
Apply patch 117350-50 or later

Solaris 9:
Apply patch 122300-13 or later

Solaris 10:
Apply patch 127111-01 or later

-- x86 Platform --

Solaris 8:
Apply patch 117351-50 or later

Solaris 9:
Apply patch 122301-13 or later

Solaris 10:
Apply patch 127112-01 or later

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103064-1

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