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A vulnerability was found in Sun Solaris 2.4 (Operating System). It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component syslogd. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:
Solaris syslogd crashes when receiving a message from a host that doesn t have an inverse DNS entry.
The weakness was shared 03/01/1999 by Denis Campeau (FIRST) as not defined posting (Bugtraq). The advisory is available at securityfocus.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-1999-0223. The exploitation is known to be easy. Local access is required to approach this attack. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.
Upgrading to version 2.5 eliminates this vulnerability.
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- end of life
CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
CVSSv4
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CVSSv3
VulDB Meta Base Score: 4.0VulDB Meta Temp Score: 3.8
VulDB Base Score: 4.0
VulDB Temp Score: 3.8
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CVSSv2
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Exploiting
Class: Denial of serviceCWE: CWE-404
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Local: Yes
Remote: No
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Status: Not defined
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Threat Intelligence
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Countermeasures
Recommended: UpgradeStatus: 🔍
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Upgrade: Solaris 2.5
Timeline
11/09/1996 🔍03/01/1999 🔍
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06/20/2014 🔍
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Sources
Vendor: oracle.comAdvisory: securityfocus.com⛔
Researcher: Denis Campeau (FIRST)
Status: Not defined
Confirmation: 🔍
CVE: CVE-1999-0223 (🔍)
SecurityFocus: 1878 - Solaris syslogd Unresolvable Address Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
Entry
Created: 06/20/2014 17:17Updated: 05/20/2018 11:16
Changes: 06/20/2014 17:17 (51), 05/20/2018 11:16 (7)
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