From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Wed Jan 31 2007 - 03:02:04 CST

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TITLE:
Sun Solaris ICMP Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA23982

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/23982/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
From remote

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Sun Solaris 10
http://secunia.com/product/4813/

DESCRIPTION:
Sun has acknowledged a vulnerability in Solaris, which can be
exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error when
processing ICMP ping requests and can be exploited to cause a system
panic by sending a specially crafted ICMP request to an affected
system.

Successful exploitation requires that systems are configured to
receive ICMP ping requests.

The vulnerability is reported in Sun Solaris 10 for both the SPARC
and x86 platform.

SOLUTION:
Apply patches.

Sun Solaris 10 for the SPARC platform:
Apply patch 118833-28 or later

Sun Solaris 10 for the x86 platform:
Apply patch 118855-28 or later

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102697-1

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