Sun Microsystems Inc. Information for VU#844360

Domain Name System (DNS) stub resolver libraries vulnerable to buffer overflows via network name or address lookups

Status

Affected

Vendor Statement

The Solaris DNS resolver library (libresolv(3LIB)) is affected by VU#844360 in the following supported versions of Solaris:

    Solaris 2.6


Patches are being generated for all of the above releases. Sun will be publishing a Sun Alert for this issue at the following location shortly:

The patches will be available from:
    http://sunsolve.sun.com/securitypatch

    Vendor Information

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    Vendor References

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