Solaris Performance Can Be Degraded via a TCP ACK Flood Attack
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SecurityTracker Alert ID: 1016589
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SecurityTracker URL: http://securitytracker.com/id?1016589
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CVE Reference: CVE-2006-3920
(Links to External Site)
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Updated: Jun 13 2008
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Original Entry Date: Jul 27 2006
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Impact: Denial of service via network
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Fix Available: Yes
Vendor Confirmed: Yes
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Advisory: Sun Alert
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Version(s): 8, 9, 10
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Description: A vulnerability was reported in Solaris. A remote user can cause denial of service conditions.
A remote user can conduct a TCP ACK flood attack (using inherenet features of the TCP protocol) to cause the target system to consume all available resources. Performance on the target system will be degraded.
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Impact: A remote user can cause performance to degrade on the target system.
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Solution: Sun has issued the following fixes to protect against TCP ACK storms.
SPARC Platform
* Solaris 8 with patch 116965-17 or
later
* Solaris 9 with patch 118305-07 or later
* Solaris 10 with patch 118833-12 or later
x86 Platform
* Solaris
8 with patch 116966-16 or later
* Solaris 9 with patch 117470-06 or later
* Solaris 10 with patch 118855-10 or later
The
Sun advisory is available at:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102206-1
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Vendor URL: sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102206-1 (Links to External Site)
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Cause: Resource error
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Underlying OS: UNIX (Solaris - SunOS)
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Message History:
None.
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Source Message Contents
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Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 02:58:40 -0400
Subject: Solaris Hosts are Vulnerable to a Denial of Service Induced by an Internet Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
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http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102206-1
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