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TITLE:
Sun Solaris Tk GIF Processing Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA30129

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/30129/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS, System access

WHERE:
>From remote

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

DESCRIPTION:
Sun has acknowledged some vulnerabilities in the Tcl GUI Toolkit
Library included in Solaris, which can be exploited by malicious
people to compromise an application using the library.

For more information:
SA26942
SA28784

The vulnerabilities are reported in Solaris 9 and 10 for both the
SPARC and x86 platforms.

SOLUTION:
Apply patches.

-- SPARC platform --
Solaris 9:
Apply patch 137910-01 or later.

Solaris 10:
Apply patch 137871-01 or later.


-- x86 platform --
Solaris 9:
Apply patch 137911-01 or later.

Solaris 10:
Apply patch 137872-01 or later.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Sun (237465):
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-237465-1

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA26942:
http://secunia.com/advisories/26942/

SA28784:
http://secunia.com/advisories/28784/

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