Sun Solaris up to Snv 82 resource management

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Sun Solaris (Operating System). This affects an unknown code block. 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. The summary by CVE is:

The IPv4 Forwarding feature in Sun Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris snv_47 through snv_82, with certain patches installed, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (panic) via unknown vectors that trigger a NULL pointer dereference.

The bug was discovered 12/15/2008. The weakness was released 12/17/2008 (Website). The advisory is shared at sunsolve.sun.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2008-5661 since 12/17/2008. The exploitability is told to be difficult. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 26157 (Solaris 10 (sparc) : 120011-14 (deprecated)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Solaris Local Security Checks and running in the context l.

A possible mitigation has been published even before and not after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (47378) and Tenable (26157).

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.9
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Class: Resource management
CWE: CWE-399 / CWE-404
ATT&CK: Unknown

Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined

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Nessus ID: 26157
Nessus Name: Solaris 10 (sparc) : 120011-14 (deprecated)
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: oracle.com

Advisory: sunsolve.sun.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2008-5661 (🔍)
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X-Force: 47378
SecurityTracker: 1021413
Vulnerability Center: 20254 - Sun Solaris 10 IPv4 Forwarding Vulnerability Allows Remote Attackers to Cause DoS, Medium
SecurityFocus: 32861 - Sun Solaris IPv4 Forwarding Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia: 33148 - Sun Solaris IPv4 Forwarding Denial of Service, Moderately Critical
OSVDB: 50828 - Sun - Solaris - IPv4 Forwarding Denial of Service Issue

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Created: 03/17/2015 16:11
Updated: 08/22/2019 11:40
Changes: 03/17/2015 16:11 (76), 08/22/2019 11:40 (4)
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