Sun Solaris 8.0/9.0 sendfilev denial of service

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Sun Solaris 8.0/9.0 (Operating System). This affects the function sendfilev. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. This is going to have an impact on availability. The summary by CVE is:

Unknown vulnerability in the sendfilev function in Sun Solaris 8 and 9 allows local users to cause a denial of service (system panic) via unknown vectors.

The bug was discovered 04/22/2004. The weakness was presented 04/22/2004 with Sun Microsystems Inc. (Website). The advisory is shared at sunsolve.sun.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2004-1356 since 01/06/2005. The attack needs to be done within the local network. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 13578 , which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at sunsolve.sun.com.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (15946) and Tenable (13578). See 632 for similar entry.

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

Local: No
Remote: Partially

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Nessus ID: 13578
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Patch: sunsolve.sun.com

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Vendor: oracle.com

Advisory: sunsolve.sun.com
Researcher: http://www.sun.com
Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc.
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2004-1356 (🔍)
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X-Force: 15946 - Sun Solaris sendfilev denial of service, Medium Risk
Vulnerability Center: 8845 - DoS in Sun Solaris 8,9 via Sendfilev Function, Low
SecurityFocus: 10202 - Sun Solaris SendFileV Local Denial Of Service Vulnerability
Secunia: 11457 - Sun Solaris "sendfilev()" Extended Library Function Denial of Service, Not Critical
OSVDB: 5619 - Solaris Extended Library Function sendfilev DoS

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Created: 04/26/2004 12:51
Updated: 03/09/2021 13:50
Changes: 04/26/2004 12:51 (82), 06/28/2019 10:52 (1), 03/09/2021 13:50 (5)
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