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TITLE:
Solaris Microcode Device Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA38452

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/38452/

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

The vulnerability is caused due to a NULL-pointer dereference error
in the implementation of the microcode device. This can be exploited
to cause a kernel panic via a specially crafted UCODE_GET_VERSION
IOCTL.

The vulnerability is reported in Solaris 10 for the x86 platform.

SOLUTION:
Apply patch 143913-01.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Tobias Klein

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Oracle:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-143913-01-1

Tobias Klein:
http://trapkit.de/advisories/TKADV2010-001.txt
http://tk-blog.blogspot.com/2010/01/kernel-null-pointer-dereference-in.html

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