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TITLE:
Sun Solaris Libxml2 UTF-8 Parsing Denial of Service

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA28466

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/28466/

CRITICAL:
Moderately 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:
Sun has acknowledged a vulnerability in Solaris, which can be
exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

For more information:
SA28444

The vulnerability affects Solaris 9 and 10 for both the SPARC and x86
platforms.

SOLUTION:
The vendor has issued preliminary patches.

-- SPARC Platform --

Solaris 9:
Apply T-patch T114014-18.

Solaris 10:
Apply T-patch T125731-02.

-- x86 Platform --

Solaris 9:
Apply T-patch T114015-18.

Solaris 10:
Apply T-patch T125732-02.

Preliminary T-patches are available from:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/tpatches

A final resolution is pending completion.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103201-1

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA28444:
http://secunia.com/advisories/28444/

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