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>> Sun Solaris Floating Point Context Switch Denial of Service Vulnerability
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Title : Sun Solaris Floating Point Context Switch Denial of Service Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-1193
CVE ID : CVE-2008-1778
Rated as : Low Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : No
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-04-11
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A vulnerability has been identified in Sun Solaris, which could be exploited by local attackers to cause a denial of service or corrupt data. This issue is caused by an error in the floating point context switch implementation, which could be exploited by malicious users to cause an arbitrary application running on the system to exit or get incorrect results, leading to denial of service and data integrity issues.
Affected Products
Sun Solaris 9
Sun Solaris 10
Solution
Sun Solaris 9 - Apply patch 122301-23 or later
Sun Solaris 10 - Apply patch 127112-10 or later
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1193
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-233921-1
Credits
Vulnerability reported by the vendor.
ChangeLog
2008-04-11 : Initial release
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