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ESB-2006.0886 -- [Solaris]
A Security Vulnerability in the Solaris Kernel May Allow a
Denial of Service (DoS) Condition to Occur
5 December 2006
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: Solaris Kernel
Publisher: Sun Microsystems
Operating System: Solaris 10, 9 and 8
Impact: Denial of Service
Access: Existing Account
Original Bulletin:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/printfriendly.do?assetkey=1-26-102574-1
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Sun(sm) Alert Notification
* Sun Alert ID: 102574
* Synopsis: A Security Vulnerability in the Solaris Kernel May Allow
a Denial of Service (DoS) Condition to Occur
* Category: Security
* Product: Solaris 9 Operating System, Solaris 10 Operating System,
Solaris 8 Operating System
* BugIDs: 6272865
* Avoidance: Patch
* State: Resolved
* Date Released: 30-Nov-2006
* Date Closed: 30-Nov-2006
* Date Modified:
1. Impact
A security vulnerability related to a race condition in the Solaris
kernel may allow a local unprivileged user to panic the system,
creating a Denial of Service (DoS) condition.
2. Contributing Factors
This issue can occur in the following releases:
SPARC Platform
* Solaris 8 without patches 117350-40, 123703-01 and 116959-15
* Solaris 9 without patches 118558-30, 117125-03, 121316-02
and 113278-14
* Solaris 10 without patches 120661-03 and 118822-19
x86 Platform
* Solaris 8 without patches 117351-40, 123704-01 and 116960-15
* Solaris 9 without patches 118559-30, 120884-02,
121317-02 and 119439-06
* Solaris 10 without patches 120662-04 and 118844-19
Note: Solaris 7 will not be evaluated regarding the potential impact
of this issue.
3. Symptoms
A number of different types of panic can result making it difficult to
quickly pinpoint this issue as the cause.
For example: if running the following command over a resulting
crashdump (by default written to /var/crash/<uname -n>, see
dumpadm(1M)):
# echo "::walk thread | ::findstack ! grep exitlwps" | mdb unix.0 vmcore.0
produces any matches similar to the following:
000002a100e38fc1 exitlwps+0x114()
then it is likely that this issue has occurred.
4. Relief/Workaround
There is no workaround to this issue. Please see the Resolution
section below.
5. Resolution
This issue is addressed in the following releases:
SPARC Platform
* Solaris 8 with patches 117350-40 or later, 123703-01 or later and
116959-15 or later
* Solaris 9 with patches 118558-30 or later, 117125-03 or
later, 121316-02 or later and 113278-14 or later
* Solaris 10 with patches 120661-03 or later and 118822-19
or later
x86 Platform
* Solaris 8 with patches 117351-40 or later, 123704-01 or later and
116960-15 or later
* Solaris 9 with patches 118559-30 or later, 120884-02 or
later, 121317-02 or later and 119439-06 or later
* Solaris 10 with patches 120662-04 or later and 118844-19
or later
Note: Solaris 8 patch 123703-01 has been accumulated into
117350-41 and 123704-01 has been accumulated into 117351-41
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Copyright 2000-2006 Sun Microsystems, Inc., 4150 Network Circle, Santa
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