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A vulnerability was found in Sun OpenSolaris up to Snv 28 (Operating System). It has been rated as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-399. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:
tun in IP Tunnel in Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris snv_01 through snv_76 allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted SIOCGTUNPARAM IOCTL request, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference.
The bug was discovered 12/17/2008. The weakness was released 12/19/2008 by Tobias Klein (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at sunsolve.sun.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2008-5689 since 12/19/2008. The exploitation is known to be easy. Attacking locally is a requirement. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.
A public exploit has been developed by peri.carding in ANSI C and been published 3 years after the advisory. The exploit is available at securityfocus.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 2 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $25k-$100k.
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 (47449) and Exploit-DB (15962). Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at 36918, 47197, 51442 and 53784.
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Class: Resource managementCWE: CWE-399 / CWE-404
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Local: Yes
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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
Author: peri.carding
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Timeline
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Sources
Vendor: oracle.comAdvisory: sunsolve.sun.com⛔
Researcher: Tobias Klein
Status: Confirmed
CVE: CVE-2008-5689 (🔍)
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X-Force: 47449
SecurityTracker: 1021464
Vulnerability Center: 20275 - Sun Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris snv_01 - snv_76 IP Tunnel tun Local Code Execution or DoS, High
SecurityFocus: 32904 - Sun Solaris IP Tunnel Param Local Code Execution Vulnerability
Secunia: 33160 - Sun Solaris IP Tunnel SIOCGTUNPARAM IOCTL Vulnerability, Less Critical
OSVDB: 0 - CVE-2008-5689 - Sun - Solaris - Denial Of Service Issue
Vupen: ADV-2008-3454
scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Entry
Created: 03/17/2015 16:11Updated: 08/22/2019 12:01
Changes: 03/17/2015 16:11 (81), 08/22/2019 12:01 (2)
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