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TITLE:
Sun Solaris CPU Performance Counters Sub-System Local Denial of
Service

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA29052

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/29052/

CRITICAL:
Not critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
Local system

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

DESCRIPTION:
Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Sun Solaris, which can be
exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of
Service).

The vulnerabilities are caused due to race condition errors within
the CPU Performance Counters (cpc(3CPC)) sub-system of the Solaris
kernel. These can be exploited to cause a system panic.

The vulnerabilities are reported in Solaris 10 for both the SPARC and
x86 platforms.

SOLUTION:
Apply patch.

-- SPARC Platform --

Apply patch 127111-08 or later.
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-127111-08-1

-- x86 Platform --

Apply patch 127112-08 or later.
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-127112-08-1

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

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-231466-1

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