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TITLE:
Sun Solaris NFS Local Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA33361

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http://secunia.com/advisories/33361/

CRITICAL:
Not critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
Local system

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Sun Solaris 10
http://secunia.com/advisories/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 unspecified errors in the NFS
client, which can be exploited to cause a system panic.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires that NFS
version 4 is used to access remote file systems.

This vulnerability is reported in Solaris 10 for both the SPARC and
x86 platforms.

SOLUTION:
Apply patches.

-- SPARC Platform --

Solaris 10:
Apply patch 139466-02 or later

OpenSolaris:
Fixed in builds snv_102 or later

-- x86 Platform --

Solaris 10:
Apply patch 139467-02 or later

OpenSolaris:
Fixed in builds snv_102 or later

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-248566-1

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