FrSIRT - Sun Solaris vuidmice STREAMS Modules Denial of Service Vulnerability / Exploit (Security Advisories)

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Sun Solaris vuidmice STREAMS Modules Denial of Service Vulnerability

Title : Sun Solaris vuidmice STREAMS Modules Denial of Service Vulnerability
Advisory ID : FrSIRT/ADV-2008-0582
CVE ID : CVE-2008-0836
Rated as : Low Risk

Remotely Exploitable : No
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-02-18

Advisory Details

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Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Sun Solaris, which could be exploited by local attackers to cause a denial of service. This issue is caused by an unspecified error in the vuidmice STREAMS modules, which could allow a local unprivileged user to panic a vulnerable system, creating a denial of service condition. This is a different vulnerability than FrSIRT/ADV-2007-3416

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Vulnerability reported by the vendor.

ChangeLog

2008-02-18 : Initial release

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