Oracle Solaris 10/11 Common Desktop Environment buffer overflow

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability categorized as critical has been discovered in Oracle Solaris 10/11. Affected is an unknown function of the component Common Desktop Environment. Executing a manipulation can lead to Local Privilege Escalation. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2020-2944. The attack requires local access. In addition, an exploit is available. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Oracle Solaris 10/11 (Operating System). This vulnerability affects an unknown functionality of the component Common Desktop Environment. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a local privilege escalation vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-120. The product copies an input buffer to an output buffer without verifying that the size of the input buffer is less than the size of the output buffer, leading to a buffer overflow. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Vulnerability in the Oracle Solaris product of Oracle Systems (component: Common Desktop Environment). Supported versions that are affected are 10 and 11. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle Solaris executes to compromise Oracle Solaris. While the vulnerability is in Oracle Solaris, attacks may significantly impact additional products. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in takeover of Oracle Solaris. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 8.8 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H).

The weakness was presented 04/15/2020 as Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - April 2020 as confirmed advisory (Website). The advisory is available at oracle.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2020-2944. Local access is required to approach this attack. The successful exploitation needs a single authentication. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.

It is possible to download the exploit at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. As 0-day the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k.

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

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Exploit-DB (48359). See VDB-153686, VDB-153290, VDB-153291 and VDB-153293 for similar entries. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Class: Buffer overflow
CWE: CWE-120 / CWE-119
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
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Access: Public
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: oracle.com

Advisory: Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - April 2020
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2020-2944 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2020-2944
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-153658
scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Entryinfo

Created: 04/15/2020 12:43
Updated: 03/16/2025 08:25
Changes: 04/15/2020 12:43 (63), 05/26/2024 08:24 (17), 05/26/2024 08:26 (18), 03/16/2025 08:25 (11)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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