A Security Vulnerability in the Solaris 10 "tl" Driver May Allow a Local Unprivileged User the Ability to Panic the System


Category :Security
Release Phase :Resolved
Product :Solaris 10 Operating System  
Bug Id :6290652  
Date of Resolved Release :19-SEP-2005 


Impact

A security vulnerability in the Solaris 10 "tl" driver may allow a local unprivileged user the ability to panic the system, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS).


Contributing Factors

This issue can occur in the following releases:

SPARC Platform

x86 Platform

Note: Solaris 8 and 9 are not vulnerable to this issue. Solaris 7 will not be evaluated regarding the potential impact of the issue described in this Sun Alert.


Symptoms

The system will panic in the function: serializer_enter().


Workaround

There is no workaround to this issue. Please see the Resolution section below.


Resolution

This issue is addressed in the following releases:

SPARC Platform

x86 Platform






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Article ID : 200243
Article Type : Sun Alert
Last reviewed : 2005-09-19
Audience : PUBLIC
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