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[sec-adv] Sun Solaris automountd Local Denial of Service

From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Thu Jul 24 2003 - 16:28:48 CDT


TITLE:
Sun Solaris automountd Local Denial of Service

READ ONLINE:
http://www.secunia.com/advisories/9353/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
Local system

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Sun Solaris 8

DESCRIPTION:
Sun has issued updated patches for Sun Solaris 8 due to errors in
patches 108993-14 through 108993-19 and 108994-14 through 108994-19
allowing malicious local users to crash automountd.

No further details has been released.

Other errors are also corrected by these updated patches.

SOLUTION:
Updated patches are available:

Solaris 8 on SPARC:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/findPatch.pl?patchId=108993&rev=20

Solaris 8 on x86:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/findPatch.pl?patchId=108994&rev=20

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=fsalert%2F55340

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