HP HP-UX 11.00/11.11/11.23 denial of service

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in HP HP-UX 11.00/11.11/11.23. Affected is an unknown function. This manipulation causes denial of service. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2006-1509. There is no available exploit. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in HP HP-UX 11.00/11.11/11.23 (Operating System). Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. As an impact it is known to affect availability. The summary by CVE is:

/sbin/passwd in HP-UX B.11.00, B.11.11, and B.11.23 before 20060326 "does not recover gracefully from some error conditions," which allows local users to cause a denial of service.

The bug was discovered 03/26/2006. The weakness was presented 03/29/2006 (Website). The advisory is shared at www2.itrc.hp.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2006-1509 since 03/29/2006. The exploitation appears to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 3 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 21912 (HP-UX PHCO_34929 : HP-UX passwd(1) Local Denial of Service (DoS) (HPSBUX02103 SSRT5953 rev.3)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family HP-UX Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 115347 (HP-UX Passwd Unspecified Local Denial of Service Vulnerability (HPSBUX02103)).

Upgrading to version b.11.00 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 3 months after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (25596), Tenable (21912), SecurityFocus (BID 17280†), OSVDB (24326†) and Secunia (SA19490†). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
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Status: Proof-of-Concept

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Nessus ID: 21912
Nessus Name: HP-UX PHCO_34929 : HP-UX passwd(1) Local Denial of Service (DoS) (HPSBUX02103 SSRT5953 rev.3)
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: HP-UX b.11.00

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03/12/2015 +3173 days 🔍
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: hp.com

Advisory: www2.itrc.hp.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2006-1509 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2006-1509
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-29413

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X-Force: 25596
SecurityFocus: 17280 - HP-UX Passwd Unspecified Local Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia: 19490 - HP-UX passwd Unspecified Denial of Service Vulnerability, Not Critical
OSVDB: 24326 - CVE-2006-1509 - HP-UX - Unspecified Issue
Vulnerability Center: 10904 - HP-UX Local DoS via /sbin/passwd, Medium
Vupen: ADV-2006-1208

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Created: 03/12/2015 12:19
Updated: 06/22/2025 05:55
Changes: 03/12/2015 12:19 (76), 06/16/2019 09:12 (4), 06/22/2025 05:55 (20)
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