Oracle Solaris up to 11 gssd Local Privilege Escalation

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Oracle Solaris up to 11 and classified as problematic. This affects an unknown function of the component gssd. Such manipulation leads to Local Privilege Escalation. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2012-1683. The attack needs to be performed locally. There is not any exploit available. It is advisable to implement a patch to correct this issue.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Oracle Solaris up to 11 (Operating System). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code of the component gssd. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a local privilege escalation vulnerability. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Sun Solaris 8, 9, 10, and 11 allows local users to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors related to gssd.

The weakness was released 04/17/2012 with Oracle (Website). The advisory is shared for download at oracle.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2012-1683 since 03/16/2012. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The attack needs to be approached locally. The exploitation needs additional levels of successful authentication. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 76801 (Oracle Solaris Critical Patch Update : apr2012_SRU4), 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 120112 (Solaris Gssd Local Vulnerability - Shadow Brokers (EBBISLAND)).

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 (76801), SecurityFocus (BID 53128†), Secunia (SA48809†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-34923†). Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at VDB-5110, VDB-5087, VDB-5112 and VDB-5111. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Class: Local Privilege Escalation
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
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Nessus ID: 76801
Nessus Name: Oracle Solaris Critical Patch Update : apr2012_SRU4
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Patch: oracle.com

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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: oracle.com

Advisory: oracle.com
Organization: Oracle
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CVE: CVE-2012-1683 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2012-1683
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-5156

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SecurityFocus: 53128 - Oracle Solaris CVE-2012-1698 Remote Vulnerability
Secunia: 48809 - Oracle Solaris Multiple Vulnerabilities, Less Critical
Vulnerability Center: 34923 - [cpuapr2012-366314] Oracle Sun Solaris 8, 9, 10, and 11 \x27gssd(1M)\x27 Local Unspecified Vulnerability, Medium

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Entryinfo

Created: 04/18/2012 22:00
Updated: 03/23/2021 11:04
Changes: 04/18/2012 22:00 (69), 04/19/2017 10:28 (10), 03/23/2021 11:04 (2)
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