Oracle Solaris 11 Archive Utility denial of service

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A vulnerability was found in Oracle Solaris 11 (Operating System). It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown function of the component Archive Utility. 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 confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Sun Solaris 11 allows local users to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors related to Archive Utility.

The weakness was shared 10/15/2014 with Oracle as Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - October 2014 as confirmed advisory (Website). The advisory is shared at oracle.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2014-6470 since 09/17/2014. The exploitation is known to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. The successful exploitation requires a simple authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 78462 (Oracle Solaris Critical Patch Update : oct2014_11_2SRU0), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Solaris Local Security Checks.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (97156) and Tenable (78462). krebsonsecurity.com is providing further details. The entries 67525, 67832, 67831 and 67806 are related to this item.

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

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Status: Unproven

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Nessus ID: 78462
Nessus Name: Oracle Solaris Critical Patch Update : oct2014_11_2SRU0
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Vendor: oracle.com

Advisory: Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - October 2014
Organization: Oracle
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2014-6470 (🔍)
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X-Force: 97156 - Oracle Solaris Archive Utility unspecified, Medium Risk
SecurityTracker: 1031032
Vulnerability Center: 46519 - [cpuoct2014-1972960] Oracle Solaris 11 Local Code Execution - CVE-2014-6470, Medium
SecurityFocus: 70551 - Oracle Solaris CVE-2014-6470 Local Security Vulnerability
Secunia: 61593 - Oracle Solaris Multiple Vulnerabilities, Moderately Critical

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Created: 10/15/2014 13:40
Updated: 02/23/2022 02:13
Changes: 10/15/2014 13:40 (76), 06/09/2017 06:52 (7), 02/23/2022 02:06 (3), 02/23/2022 02:13 (1)
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