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TITLE:
Sun Solaris SCTP Denial of Service Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA29973

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/29973/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

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

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

The vulnerabilities are caused due to errors in the implementation of
the SCTP protocol. These can be exploited hang an affected system,
cause a system panic, or to cause excessive network traffic via
specially crafted SCTP packets.

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

SOLUTION:
Apply patches.

-- SPARC Platform --

Apply patch 127127-08 or later.

-- x86 Platform --

Apply patch 127128-08 or later.

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

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-236321-1
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-236521-1

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