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TITLE:
Sun Solaris Remote Procedure Call Module Denial of Service

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA27831

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27831/

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

The vulnerability is caused due to a race condition error within the
Solaris Remote Procedure Call module (rpcmod) and can be exploited to
trigger a NULL pointer dereference.

The vulnerability is reported in Sun Solaris 8, 9, and 10 for both
the SPARC and x86 platforms.

SOLUTION:
Apply patches.

-- SPARC Platform --

Solaris 8:
Apply patch 116959-20 or later.

Solaris 9:
Apply patch 113278-18 or later.

Solaris 10:
Apply patch 127739-01 or later.

-- x86 Platform --

Solaris 8:
Apply patch 116960-20 or later.

Solaris 9:
Apply patch 119439-11 or later.

Solaris 10:
Apply patch 127740-01 or later.

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

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103083-1

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