Oracle Solaris up to 11 Express sshd denial of service

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Oracle Solaris up to 11 Express (Operating System). This issue affects some unknown processing of the component sshd. 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. The summary by CVE is:

Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Solaris 9, 10, and 11 Express allows remote attackers to affect availability via unknown vectors related to sshd.

The weakness was shared 01/17/2012 with Oracle (Website). The advisory is shared at oracle.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2012-0099 since 12/12/2011. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1499 for this issue.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at oracle.com. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (72506). The entries 4564, 4560, 4566 and 4559 are related to this item.

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Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
ATT&CK: T1499

Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Unproven

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Patch: oracle.com

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Vendor: oracle.com

Advisory: oracle.com
Organization: Oracle
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2012-0099 (🔍)
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X-Force: 72506 - Oracle Sun Solaris denial of service, Low Risk
Vulnerability Center: 34296 - [cpujan2012-366304] Oracle Solaris 9, 10 and 11 Express SSH Unspecified Remote DoS Vulnerability (CVE-2012-0099), Low
SecurityFocus: 51500 - Oracle Sun Solaris CVE-2012-0099 Remote Security Vulnerability
Secunia: 48308 - Xerox FreeFlow Print Server Multiple Vulnerabilities, Highly Critical
OSVDB: 78425

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Created: 04/19/2012 21:00
Updated: 04/19/2017 10:29
Changes: 04/19/2012 21:00 (68), 04/19/2017 10:29 (7)
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