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TITLE:
Sun Solaris 10 ipsecah Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA29253

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/29253/

CRITICAL:
Not critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
Local system

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

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

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error within the
ipsecah(7P) kernel module, and can be exploited to cause a system
panic.

Successful exploitation requires that the system is configured to use
IPsec and at least one program is listening on a PF_KEY socket.

The vulnerability affects Solaris 10 for both the SPARC and x86
platforms.

SOLUTION:
Apply vendor patches.

-- SPARC Platform --

Solaris 10: 
Apply patch 127111-09 or later

-- x86 Platform --

Solaris 10:
Apply patch 127112-09 or later.

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

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-233761-1

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