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TITLE:
Sun Solaris Pseudo-Terminal Driver Denial of Service

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA33662

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/33662/

CRITICAL:
Not critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
Local system

REVISION:
1.1 originally posted 2009-01-28

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Sun Solaris 8
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/94/
Sun Solaris 9
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/95/
Sun Solaris 10
http://secunia.com/advisories/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 a race condition in the Solaris
pseudo-terminal driver (pty(7D)) module, which can be exploited to
cause a system panic.

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

SOLUTION:
Apply patches.

-- SPARC Platform --

Solaris 8:
Apply patch 113685-07 or later.
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-113685-07-1

Solaris 9:
Apply patch 140426-01 or later.
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-140426-01-1

Solaris 10:
Apply patch 140383-01 or later.
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-140383-01-1

OpenSolaris:
Fixed in build snv_103 or later.

-- x86 Platform --

Solaris 8:
Apply patch 113686-06 or later.
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-113686-06-1

Solaris 9:
Apply patch 140427-01 or later.
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-140427-01-1

Solaris 10:
Apply patch 140384-01 or later.
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-140384-01-1

OpenSolaris:
Fixed in build snv_103 or later.

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

CHANGELOG:
2009-01-28: Added CVE reference.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-249586-1

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