Title: Sun Solaris TCP SYN Flooding Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
Severity: MODERATE
Description:
Sun Solaris is prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability that occurs because of its TCP implementation.
Computers undergoing a TCP SYN flood condition may not be able to accept new network connections. Connection attempts may time out before they are successfully established, leading to a denial-of-service condition for network services provided by the computer. Also, uniprocessor computers may experience excessive CPU consumption, creating denial-of-service conditions for the computer as a whole.
Technical details are currently unavailable at the moment. We will update this BID as soon as more information becomes available.
A remote attacker can exploit this issue to cause the system to hang or to degrade its performance, denying service to legitimate users.
Affected Products:
- Avaya CMS Server 13.0.0
- Avaya CMS Server 13.1
- Avaya CMS Server 14.0
- Avaya Interactive Response 2.0
- Avaya Interactive Response 3.0
- Nortel Networks Self-Service - CCSS7
- Nortel Networks Self-Service MPS 100
- Nortel Networks Self-Service MPS 1000
- Nortel Networks Self-Service MPS 500
- Nortel Networks Self-Service Media Processing Server
- Nortel Networks Self-Service Peri Application
- Nortel Networks Self-Service Peri CTX
- Nortel Networks Self-Service Peri Workstation
- Nortel Networks Self-Service Speech Server
- Sun Solaris 10
- Sun Solaris 10.0
- Sun Solaris 10.0_x86
- Sun Solaris 10_sparc
- Sun Solaris 10_x86
- Sun Solaris 8
- Sun Solaris 8_x86
- Sun Solaris 9
- Sun Solaris 9_sparc
- Sun Solaris 9_x86
References:
- Avaya: ASA-2008-206: Security Vulnerability in the TCP Implementation of Solaris System
- Nortel: Nortel Response to Sun Alert 200864 - Solaris DoS Under a TCP "SYN Flood" Attack
- Sun Microsystems: Solaris Homepage
- Sun Microsystems: Sun Alert ID 200864
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