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TITLE:
Sun Solaris System Management Agent SNMP Daemon Buffer Overflow

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA31155

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/31155/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS, System access

WHERE:
>From local network

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

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Sun Solaris, which can be
exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or
compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the System
Management Agent (SMA) SNMP daemon (snmpd(1M)) and can be exploited
to cause a buffer overflow. 

This is related to:
SA30187

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

The vulnerability affects Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris.

SOLUTION:
A final resolution is pending completion for Solaris 10.

-- SPARC platform --

OpenSolaris:
Fixed in builds snv_93 or later.


-- x86 platform --

OpenSolaris:
Fixed in builds snv_93 or later.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Originally reported by John Kortink via a Net-snmp bug report.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-239785-1

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA30187:
http://secunia.com/advisories/30187/

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