:A vulnerability has been reported in Sun Solaris, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the TCP implementation and can be exploited to e.g. cause network connections to time out or to cause certain systems to consume large amounts of CPU resources via a TCP SYN flood.Successful exploitation requires that the ndd(1M) tunable "tcp_conn_req_max_q0" is set to a value higher than the default value of 1024.The vulnerability is reported in Solaris 8, 9, and 10 for both the SPARC and x86 platforms.Solution:Apply patches.– SPARC platform –Solaris 8:Apply patch 116965-33 or later.Solaris 9:Apply patch 114344-35 or later.Solaris 10:Apply patch 119998-01 or later.– x86 platform –Solaris 8:Apply patch 116966-32 or later.Solaris 9:Apply patch 119435-23 or later.Solaris 10:Apply patch 119999-01 or later.Provided and/or discovered by:Reported by the vendor.Original Advisory:Sun (200864):http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-200864-1Extended Solution:The “Extended Solution” section is available for Secunia customers only. Request a trial and get access to the Secunia Customer Area and Extended Secunia advisories.

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