From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Tue Jul 22 2003 - 08:37:45 CDT

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TITLE:
Sun Solaris Denial of Service

READ ONLINE:
http://www.secunia.com/advisories/9323/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
From remote

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Sun Solaris 8

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been identified in Sun Solaris 8 allowing
malicious people to crash the system if IPv6 support is enabled.

The problem is that the Sun Solaris 8 fails to handle certain IPv6
packets, no further details has been released.

This only affects system with an active IPv6 interface.

SOLUTION:
Patches are available:

Sun Solaris 8 on SPARC:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/findPatch.pl?patchId=108528&rev=21

Sun Solaris 8 on i386:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/findPatch.pl?patchId=108529&rev=21

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=fsalert%2F55301&zone_32=category%3Asecurity

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