Sun Solaris Access Control List resource management

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Sun Solaris (Operating System) (the affected version is unknown). Affected is an unknown code of the component Access Control List. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource management vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-399. This is going to have an impact on availability. CVE summarizes:

Unspecified vulnerability in the UFS module in Sun Solaris 8 through 10 and OpenSolaris allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and kernel panic) via unknown vectors related to the Solaris Access Control List (ACL) implementation.

The weakness was presented 09/22/2008 with Sun Microsystems (Website). The advisory is available at xforce.iss.net. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2008-4160 since 09/22/2008. Local access is required to approach this attack. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 35214 (Solaris 10 (x86) : 139484-05), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Solaris Local Security Checks.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (45236) and Tenable (35214).

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Class: Resource management
CWE: CWE-399 / CWE-404
ATT&CK: Unknown

Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Status: Proof-of-Concept

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Nessus ID: 35214
Nessus Name: Solaris 10 (x86) : 139484-05
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09/18/2008 🔍
09/19/2008 +1 days 🔍
09/22/2008 +3 days 🔍
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06/08/2009 +173 days 🔍
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03/17/2015 +2100 days 🔍
09/06/2019 +1634 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: oracle.com

Advisory: xforce.iss.net
Organization: Sun Microsystems
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2008-4160 (🔍)
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X-Force: 45236
SecurityTracker: 1020899
Vulnerability Center: 22556 - Sun Solaris 8-10 UFS Module Unspecified Vulnerability Related to ACL Allows Local DoS, Medium
SecurityFocus: 31250 - Sun Solaris UFS Filesystem 'acl(2)' Local Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia: 31919
OSVDB: 48774 - Avaya CMS Solaris ACL for UFS File Systems NULL Dereference Local DoS
Vupen: ADV-2008-2626

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Created: 03/17/2015 16:11
Updated: 09/06/2019 09:21
Changes: 03/17/2015 16:11 (66), 09/06/2019 09:21 (11)
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