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Sun Solaris is susceptible to a local fopen() denial of service vulnerability. This issue is due to a failure of the operating system to handle exceptional conditions. This vulnerability allows local attackers to crash affected computers, denying service to legitimate users. Sun describes this issue as: "4445656 UNIX98: fopen() calls on unused major/minor device numbers causes panic"

Sun Solaris is susceptible to a local fopen() denial of service vulnerability. This issue is due to a failure of the operating system to handle exceptional conditions. This vulnerability allows local attackers to crash affected computers, denying service to legitimate users. Sun describes this issue as: "4445656 UNIX98: fopen() calls on unused major/minor device numbers causes panic"