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[SA26280] Sun Solaris DTrace Denial of Service

From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Tue Jul 31 2007 - 16:32:12 CDT

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TITLE:
Sun Solaris DTrace Denial of Service

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA26280

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/26280/

CRITICAL:
Not critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
Local system

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

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 in the DTrace
dynamic tracing framework and can be exploited to cause the system to
panic or become unresponsive via certain DTrace programs.

Successful exploitation requires at least "PRIV_DTRACE_USER"
privileges.

The vulnerability affects Solaris 10 for SPARC platform and may also
occur on x86 based systems.

SOLUTION:
Apply patches.

-- SPARC platform --

Solaris 10:
Apply patch 125100-10 or later.
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-125100-10-1

-- x86 platform --

Solaris 10:
Apply patch 125101-10 or later.
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-125101-10-1

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

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103021-1

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