Oracle Solaris 9/10/11 Kerberos/klist denial of service

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A vulnerability was found in Oracle Solaris 9/10/11 (Operating System). It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects some unknown functionality of the component Kerberos/klist. 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 allows local users to affect availability via unknown vectors related to Kerberos/klist.

The weakness was disclosed 07/17/2012 with Oracle as Patch Day July 2012 as confirmed advisory (Website). The advisory is shared at oracle.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2012-0563 since 01/11/2012. The exploitation is known to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 76818 (Oracle Solaris Critical Patch Update : jul2012_SRU9_5), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Solaris Local Security Checks. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 120905 (Solaris 11 Support Repository Update (SRU) 9.5 Missing).

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (77056) and Tenable (76818). The entries 5385, 5783, 5697 and 5766 are pretty similar.

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Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
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Nessus ID: 76818
Nessus Name: Oracle Solaris Critical Patch Update : jul2012_SRU9_5
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Vendor: oracle.com

Advisory: Patch Day July 2012
Organization: Oracle
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2012-0563 (🔍)
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X-Force: 77056
SecurityTracker: 1027274 - Solaris Multiple Bugs Let Remote Users Access and Modify Data and Deny Service and Local Users Gain Elevated Privileges
Vulnerability Center: 35615 - [cpujul2012-392727] Oracle Solaris 9, 10, and 11 Local Unspecified Vulnerability Affect Availability (CVE2012-0563), Low
SecurityFocus: 54508 - Oracle Sun Products Suite CVE-2012-1687 Local Solaris Vulnerability
OSVDB: 83928

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Created: 07/30/2012 16:00
Updated: 03/26/2021 15:36
Changes: 07/30/2012 16:00 (68), 04/19/2017 10:30 (15), 03/26/2021 15:36 (2)
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