Title: Sun Solaris System Panic Denial Of Service Vulnerability
Severity: MODERATE
Description:
A denial of service vulnerability has been reported for Sun Solaris systems. The vulnerability is due to a kernel panic that will result in the system crashing.
Reportedly, unprivileged local users may be able to cause the kernel to panic due to a NULL pointer dereference. This will result in the kernel, genunix, panicking and crashing. This will result in a denial of service.
Precise technical details of this vulnerability are currently unknown. This BID will be updated as more information becomes available.
Affected Products:
- Sun Solaris 2.5.1
- Sun Solaris 2.5.1_x86
- Sun Solaris 2.6
- Sun Solaris 2.6_x86
- Sun Solaris 7.0
- Sun Solaris 7.0_x86
- Sun Solaris 8
- Sun Solaris 8_x86
- Sun Solaris 9
References:
- Sun: Sun Alert ID: 48267
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