Sun Solaris 10 UFS Local Denial of Service Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	20919
Class:	Failure to Handle Exceptional Conditions
CVE:
Remote:	No
Local:	Yes
Published:	Nov 04 2006 12:00AM
Updated:	Nov 07 2006 05:22PM
Credit:	LMH is credited with the discovery of this vulnerability.
Vulnerable:	Sun Solaris 10.0_x86
Not Vulnerable:

Sun Solaris 10 UFS Local Denial of Service Vulnerability

Sun Solaris 10 is prone to a local denial-of-service vulnerability. This issue affects the UFS filesystem-handling code.

An attacker can exploit this issue to crash the affected computer, denying service to legitimate users.

Solaris 10 on the ia32/x86 architecture has been reported vulnerable; previous versions may be affected as well, but Symantec has not confirmed this.

Sun Solaris 10 UFS Local Denial of Service Vulnerability

The following exploit code is available:

• /data/vulnerabilities/exploits/MOKB-04-11-2006.img.gz

Sun Solaris 10 UFS Local Denial of Service Vulnerability

Solution:
Currently we are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches for this issue. If you feel we are in error or if you are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected]:[email protected].

Sun Solaris 10 UFS Local Denial of Service Vulnerability

References:

• MOKB-04-11-2006 (MOKB)
  
• Sun Solaris Homepage (Sun Microsystems)