TITLE:
Sun Solaris "/proc" Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA19128

VERIFY ADVISORY:
https://secunia.com/advisories/19128/

CRITICAL:
Not critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
Local system

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Sun Solaris 10
https://secunia.com/product/4813/
Sun Solaris 8
https://secunia.com/product/94/
Sun Solaris 9
https://secunia.com/product/95/

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 an unspecified error within the
pagedata subsystem of the process file system "/proc". This can be
exploited by an unprivileged user to cause the system to become
unresponsive, and resulting in a DoS.

SOLUTION:
Apply patches.

-- SPARC Platform --

Solaris 8:
Apply patch 117350-33 or later.

Solaris 9:
Apply patch 118558-22 or later.

Solaris 10:
Apply patch 118822-29 or later.

-- x86 Platform --

Solaris 8:
Apply patch 117351-33 or later.

Solaris 9:
Apply patch 118559-22 or later.

Solaris 10:
Apply patch 118844-29 or later.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
https://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102159-1

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