[SA20050] Sun Solaris libike Denial of Service Vulnerability

TITLE:
Sun Solaris libike Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA20050

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/20050/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Sun Solaris 9
http://secunia.com/product/95/
Sun Solaris 10
http://secunia.com/product/4813/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Solaris, which can be exploited
by malicious users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error in the libike
library. This can be exploited to crash in.iked or cause it to send
invalid data to a peer system that may crash when attempting an IKE
exchange with a malformed payload.

SOLUTION:
Apply patches.

– SPARC Platform –

Solaris 9:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-113451-11-1

Solaris 10:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-118371-07-1

– x86 Platform –

Solaris 9:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-114435-10-1

Solaris 10:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-118372-07-1

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102246-1

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