Sun N1 Grid Engine 5.3 memory corruption

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A vulnerability was found in Sun N1 Grid Engine 5.3. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Unspecified vulnerability in the daemons for Sun N1 Grid Engine 5.3 and N1 Grid Engine 6.0 allows local users to cause a denial of service (grid service shutdown) and possibly execute arbitrary code using buffer overflows via unknown vectors that cause (1) qmaster or (2) execd to terminate.

The weakness was published 07/28/2006 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at sunsolve.sun.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2006-3941. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $5k-$25k (estimation calculated on 11/24/2024). It is expected to see the exploit prices for this product decreasing in the near future.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 22973 (Solaris 10 (sparc) : 123037-01), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Solaris Local Security Checks.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (28083), Tenable (22973), SecurityFocus (BID 19218†), OSVDB (27639†) and Secunia (SA21185†).

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Nessus ID: 22973
Nessus Name: Solaris 10 (sparc) : 123037-01
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Vendor: oracle.com

Advisory: sunsolve.sun.com⛔
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CVE: CVE-2006-3941 (🔍)
X-Force: 28083
SecurityFocus: 19218 - Sun Solaris N1 Grid Engine Multiple Local Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 21185
OSVDB: 27639 - Sun N1 Grid Engine Unspecified Local Overflows
SecurityTracker: 1016607
Vulnerability Center: 26339 - Sun N1 GridEngine Buffer Overflow Local DoS or Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability, Medium

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Created: 03/12/2015 02:25 PM
Updated: 11/24/2024 10:28 PM
Changes: 03/12/2015 02:25 PM (54), 02/28/2017 11:38 AM (10), 07/13/2021 07:22 AM (4), 07/13/2021 07:28 AM (1), 11/24/2024 10:28 PM (15)
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