Oracle Solaris 10/11 Gnome Trusted Extension Local Privilege Escalation

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Oracle Solaris 10/11 and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Gnome Trusted Extension. Performing a manipulation results in Local Privilege Escalation. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2012-3199. Attacking locally is a requirement. No exploit is available. Applying a patch is the recommended action to fix this issue.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Oracle Solaris 10/11 (Operating System). It has been classified as critical. This affects an unknown part of the component Gnome Trusted Extension. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a local privilege escalation vulnerability. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Sun Solaris 10 and 11 allows local users to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors related to Gnome Trusted Extension.

The weakness was published 10/16/2012 with Oracle as cpuoct2012-1515893 as not defined advisory (Website). The advisory is shared at oracle.com. The public release has been coordinated with Oracle. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2012-3199 since 06/06/2012. The exploitability is told to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 41944 (Solaris 10 (x86) : 125534-19), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Solaris Local Security Checks. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 120907 (Solaris 11 Support Repository Update (SRU) 11.4/11.4b Missing).

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (41944), SecurityFocus (BID 56052†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-36630†). Further details are available at darkreading.com. Similar entries are available at VDB-5442, VDB-5443, VDB-6344 and VDB-6718. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Class: Local Privilege Escalation
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Physical: Partially
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Nessus ID: 41944
Nessus Name: Solaris 10 (x86) : 125534-19
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Vendor: oracle.com

Advisory: cpuoct2012-1515893
Organization: Oracle
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2012-3199 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2012-3199
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-6765

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SecurityFocus: 56052 - Oracle Solaris CVE-2012-3199 Local Security Vulnerability
Vulnerability Center: 36630 - [cpuoct2012-1515893] Oracle Sun Solaris 10, 11 Remote Unspecified Vulnerability (CVE-2012-3199), High

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Entryinfo

Created: 10/18/2012 10:00
Updated: 04/18/2021 13:07
Changes: 10/18/2012 10:00 (68), 04/19/2017 10:31 (10), 04/18/2021 13:07 (2)
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