Oracle Solaris up to 11 sockfs denial of service

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Oracle Solaris up to 11 and classified as problematic. The impacted element is an unknown function of the component sockfs. This manipulation causes denial of service. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2012-1681. The attack needs to be launched locally. No exploit is available. To fix this issue, it is recommended to deploy a patch.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Oracle Solaris up to 11 (Operating System). It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown part of the component sockfs. 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:

Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Sun Solaris 8, 9, 10, and 11 allows local users to affect availability via unknown vectors related to Kernel/sockfs.

The weakness was published 04/17/2012 by Roberto Suggi Liverani (rgod) with Oracle (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at oracle.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2012-1681 since 03/16/2012. The exploitation appears to be easy. Attacking locally is a requirement. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 76800 (Oracle Solaris Critical Patch Update : apr2012_SRU3), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Solaris Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 120897 (Solaris 11 Support Repository Update (SRU) 3 Missing).

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at oracle.com. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (76800), SecurityFocus (BID 53135†), OSVDB (81402†), Secunia (SA48809†) and SecurityTracker (ID 1026940†). Similar entries are available at VDB-5110, VDB-5087, VDB-5112 and VDB-5111. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
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Physical: Partially
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Nessus ID: 76800
Nessus Name: Oracle Solaris Critical Patch Update : apr2012_SRU3
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Patch: oracle.com

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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: oracle.com

Advisory: oracle.com
Researcher: Roberto Suggi Liverani (rgod)
Organization: Oracle
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2012-1681 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2012-1681
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-5155

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SecurityFocus: 53135 - Oracle Solaris CVE-2012-1681 Local Vulnerability
Secunia: 48809 - Oracle Solaris Multiple Vulnerabilities, Less Critical
OSVDB: 81402
SecurityTracker: 1026940 - Solaris Lets Local Users Gain Root Privileges and Remote Users Partially Access or Modify Data
Vulnerability Center: 34981 - [cpuapr2012-366314] Oracle Solaris 8, 9, 10 and 11 Kernel/sockfs Unspecified Local Vulnerability, Medium

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Entryinfo

Created: 04/18/2012 22:00
Updated: 12/28/2024 18:00
Changes: 04/18/2012 22:00 (71), 04/19/2017 10:28 (13), 03/23/2021 11:00 (2), 12/28/2024 18:00 (16)
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