HP HP-UX 11.00 denial of service

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in HP HP-UX 11.00. It has been declared as problematic. This issue affects some unknown processing. Such manipulation leads to denial of service. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2006-2551. There is not any exploit available. A patch should be applied to remediate this issue.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in HP HP-UX 11.00 (Operating System). Affected by this issue is some unknown processing. 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. CVE summarizes:

Unspecified vulnerability in the kernel in HP-UX B.11.00 allows local users to cause an unspecified denial of service via unknown vectors.

The bug was discovered 05/17/2006. The weakness was released 05/23/2006 (Website). The advisory is available at securityfocus.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2006-2551 since 05/23/2006. The exploitation is known to be easy. Local access is required to approach this attack. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 21652 (HP-UX PHKL_34406 : HP-UX Local Denial of Service (DoS) (HPSBUX02120 SSRT051057 rev.2)), 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 115360 (HP-UX Kernel Unspecified Local Denial of Service Vulnerability (HPSBUX02120)).

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. A possible mitigation has been published before and not just after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (26593), Tenable (21652), SecurityFocus (BID 18057†), OSVDB (25896†) and Secunia (SA20227†). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Status: Proof-of-Concept

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Nessus ID: 21652
Nessus Name: HP-UX PHKL_34406 : HP-UX Local Denial of Service (DoS) (HPSBUX02120 SSRT051057 rev.2)
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: hp.com

Advisory: securityfocus.com⛔
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2006-2551 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2006-2551
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-30386

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X-Force: 26593
SecurityFocus: 18057 - HP-UX Kernel Unspecified Local Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia: 20227 - HP-UX Kernel Denial of Service Vulnerability, Not Critical
OSVDB: 25896 - HP-UX - Kernel - Unspecified Local Denial of Service Issue
SecurityTracker: 1016135
Vulnerability Center: 11928 - HP-UX B.11.00 Allows Local Authenticated Users to Conduct Denial of Service, Medium
Vupen: ADV-2006-1913

Entryinfo

Created: 03/12/2015 12:19
Updated: 06/21/2025 23:50
Changes: 03/12/2015 12:19 (76), 06/20/2019 17:41 (5), 06/21/2025 23:50 (18)
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