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Title: Solaris Recursive mutex_enter Panic Vulnerability

Severity: HIGH

Description:

A vulnerability in Solaris TCP/IP stack may allow remote users to panic the system.

If the nmap network mapping utility is used with the OS fingerprinting option ('-O') against an active listening port and the server listening on that port is then killed the system will panic because of recursive calls to mutex_enter within the TCP streams driver.


This is Sun BugID 4178455.

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

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