A Security Vulnerability in the Handling of Thread Contexts in the Solaris Kernel May Allow a Denial of Service (DoS) (Sun 103084)

Original Release Date: October 2, 2007
Last Revised: June 12, 2009
Number: ASA-2007-403
Risk Level: Low
Advisory Version: 2.0
Advisory Status: Final

1. Overview:

A new Sun Alert Notification from Sun Microsystems has been issued and is described below. Issues which have been resolved by Sun Microsystems have been indicated as such. Notifications without a resolution may have restrictions to additional information on the sunsolve.sun.com website.

103084
A Security Vulnerability in the Handling of Thread Contexts in the Solaris Kernel May Allow a Denial of Service (DoS)
Product: Solaris 9 Operating System, Solaris 10 Operating System, Solaris 8 Operating System
Category: Security
Date Released: 26-Sep-2007
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103084-1

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-200 7-5132 to this issue.

Avaya System Products using a Sun Microsystems Operating System:
Avaya system products include an Operating System with the product when it is delivered. Avaya Call Management System (CMS) and Avaya Interactive Response (IR) are both shipped with an operating system from Sun Microsystems. Actions to be taken on those products are described below.

Recommended Actions:
Follow the recommended actions for the products listed below. This advisory will be updated as additional information becomes available.

Product: Affected Version(s): Risk Level: Actions:
Avaya CMS CMS R12, R13/R13.1 Low Upgrade to CMS R14 or later.
Avaya IR IR 1.3, 2.0 and 3.0 on Solaris 8 and 10 Low For IR on Solaris 8, Avaya recommends that customers install the Solaris 8 Cluster dated October 2007, from support.avaya.com in the IR downloads section, and then install Sun patch 117350-48 or later.

For IR on Solaris 10, Avaya recommends that customers install IR Service Pack 1, dated October 2007, to address this vulnerability. IR Service Pack 1 is available at support.avaya.com in the IR downloads section.

2. Additional Information:

Additional information may also be available via the Avaya support website and through your Avaya account representative. Please contact your Avaya product support representative, or dial 1-800-242-2121, with any questions.

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4. Revision History:

V 1.0 - October 2, 2007 - Initial Statement issued.
V 2.0 - June 12, 2009 - Changed CMS affected versions, actions, and ASA status to final.

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