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

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error related to directory functions and can be exploited to crash an affected system via a sequence of system calls or commands issued in a specific manner.

The vulnerability is reported in Solaris 8 for both the SPARC and x86 platforms and the only solution is to apply patches below:

Solaris 8 for SPARC Platform patch:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/docume…setkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-117350-53-1

Solaris 8 for x86 Platform patch:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/docume…setkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-117351-53-1

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