VULHUB ™

Sun has reported the existance of a denial of service vulnerability in versions of the Solaris operating systems. The condition may be triggered when processing malicious packets sent to a listening RPC service. The problem occurs due to large amounts of memory being allocated when malicious packets are received. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to crash a targetted Solaris system. The precise technical details regarding the vulnerability are currently unknown. This BID will be updated if more information is made available.

Sun has reported the existance of a denial of service vulnerability in versions of the Solaris operating systems. The condition may be triggered when processing malicious packets sent to a listening RPC service. The problem occurs due to large amounts of memory being allocated when malicious packets are received. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to crash a targetted Solaris system. The precise technical details regarding the vulnerability are currently unknown. This BID will be updated if more information is made available.