A security vulnerability in Solaris 10 SCTP INIT processing (see sctp(7P)) may allow a privileged remote user to panic the system, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS).

This issue can occur in the following releases:

SPARC Platform

• Solaris 10 without patch 127716-01

x86 Platform

• Solaris 10 without patch 127717-01

Note: Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 are not impacted by this issue.

This issue only affects systems with a "SCTP" socket in the "LISTEN" state. To determine if a host has such a socket, the following command may be used:

    $ netstat -an -P sctp | grep LISTEN

If the system does not have any "SCTP" sockets in the "LISTEN" state, it is not vulnerable to this issue.

Should the described issue occur, the system may panic with a stack trace similar to the following:

    ...
    sctp_lookup_faddr_nosctp
    sctp_secure_restart_check
    sctp_process_cookie
    ...

There is no workaround. Please see the "Resolution" section below.

This issue is addressed in the following releases:

SPARC Platform

• Solaris 10 with patch 127716-01 or later

x86 Platform

• Solaris 10 with patch 127717-01 or later

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