Title: Solaris Ping Vulnerability
Severity: LOW
Description:
The ping program is used to assess network connectivity between network devices. A denial of service condition exists in the ping program that may cause the system to panic by sending ping requests to a multicast address through the loopback interface. The system will ping itself; however, the incoming queue pointer is not yet initialized when the packet is received. Thus, the system will panic.
Affected Products:
- Sun Solaris 2.3.0
- Sun Solaris 2.4.0
- Sun Solaris 2.4.0_x86
- Sun Solaris 2.5.0
- Sun Solaris 2.5.0_x86
- Sun Solaris 2.5.1
- Sun Solaris 2.5.1_ppc
- Sun Solaris 2.5.1_x86
References:
- Sun Microsystems: Sun Patch Access Page
- Sun Microsystems: Sun Patches List
- Sun Microsystems: Sunsolve Online(tm)
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