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Sun Solaris syslogd Denial of Service
Secunia Advisory:	SA8944	Advisory Toolbox: Issue ticket Save in to-do list Mark as handled Exploit information Download as PDF Review actions Add comment
Release Date:	2003-06-05
Last Update:	2005-02-10
Popularity:	8,397 views

Critical:	Moderately critical
Impact:	DoS
Where:	From local network
Solution Status:	Vendor Patch

OS:	Sun Solaris 2.6 Sun Solaris 7 Sun Solaris 8 Sun Solaris 9

Subscribe:	Instant alerts on relevant vulnerabilities

CVE reference:	CVE-2003-1066

Description: A vulnerability has been identified in Sun Solaris, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service). Reportedly, the syslogd service can't handle UDP packets larger than 1024 bytes due to a boundary error. This can be exploited to crash the service. Solution: Apply patches. -- SPARC Platform -- Solaris 2.6: http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/findPatch.pl?patchId=106439&rev=13 Solaris 7: http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/findPatch.pl?patchId=106541&rev=25 Solaris 8: http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/findPatch.pl?patchId=110945&rev=08 Solaris 9: http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/findPatch.pl?patchId=112998&rev=03 -- x86 Platform -- Solaris 2.6: http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/findPatch.pl?patchId=106440&rev=14 Solaris 7: http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/findPatch.pl?patchId=106542&rev=25 Solaris 8: http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/findPatch.pl?patchId=110946&rev=08 Solaris 9: http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/findPatch.pl?patchId=114932&rev=01 Provided and/or discovered by: David Thiel Changelog: 2003-06-24: Sun releases alert. Updated affected systems. 2005-02-10: Added CVE reference. Original Advisory: http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-55440-1

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