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>> Sun Solaris Generic Security Services Library Remote Command Execution Vulnerability

Title : Sun Solaris Generic Security Services Library Remote Command Execution Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2007-0112
CVE ID : CVE-2006-6144
Rated as : Critical 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2007-01-09


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A vulnerability has been identified in Sun Solaris, which could be exploited by remote attackers to take complete control of an affected system or cause a denial of service. This issue is due to memory management errors in the Generic Security Services library "libgss". For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2007-0111

Affected Products

Sun Solaris 8
Sun Solaris 9
Sun Solaris 10

Solution

Solaris 8 (SPARC) - Apply patch 109223-11 or later
Solaris 9 (SPARC) - Apply patch 112908-35 or later

Solaris 8 (x86) - Apply patch 109224-11 or later
Solaris 9 (x86) - Apply patch 115168-20 or later

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0112
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102772-1
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-201294-1

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Andrew Korty (Indiana University)

ChangeLog

2007-01-09 : Initial release
2009-05-25 : Updated Solution

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