Sun Solaris Volume Manager Denial Of Service Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	10747
Class:	Failure to Handle Exceptional Conditions
CVE:
Remote:	No
Local:	Yes
Published:	Jul 19 2004 12:00AM
Updated:	Jul 19 2004 12:00AM
Credit:	The individual responsible for the discovery of this issue is currently unknown; the vendor disclosed this issue.
Vulnerable:	Sun Solaris 9_x86 Sun Solaris 9
Not Vulnerable:

Sun Solaris Volume Manager Denial Of Service Vulnerability

Reportedly the Sun Solaris Volume Manager is affected by a local denial of service vulnerability. This issue is due to a failure of the application to properly handle exceptional conditions.

An attacker might leverage this issue to cause a kernel panic in the affected computer, effectively denying service to legitimate users.

Sun Solaris Volume Manager Denial Of Service Vulnerability

Currently we are not aware of any exploits for this issue. If you feel we are in error or are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>.

Sun Solaris Volume Manager Denial Of Service Vulnerability

Solution:
Sun has released an Alert (ID:57598) along with patches dealing with this issue. Please see the referenced web advisory for more information.


Sun Solaris 9_x86

• Sun 113994-22
  http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/113994-22.zip

Sun Solaris 9

• Sun 113073-13
  http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/113073-13.zip

Sun Solaris Volume Manager Denial Of Service Vulnerability

References:

• Sun Alert ID: 57598 - Security Vulnerability With Solaris Volume Manager (SVM) (Sun)