Ibm aix Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability

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Affected Systems:
Ibm aix 7.x
Ibm aix 6.x
Description:
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Bugtraq id: 52172
Cve id: CVE-2011-1385

AIX is an open standard UNIX operating system that provides you with an enterprise information technology infrastructure.

When ibm aix processes ICMP packets, there is a security vulnerability in implementation. Malicious attackers can exploit this vulnerability to cause DOS.

<* Source: vendor

Link: http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/icmp_advisory.asc
Http://secunia.com/advisories/48149/
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Suggestion:
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Vendor patch:

IBM
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The vendor has released a patch to fix this security problem. Please download it from the vendor's homepage:

Http://www.ers.ibm.com/