Oracle Solaris 11 Power Management Local Privilege Escalation

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Oracle Solaris 11. It has been classified as problematic. This affects an unknown part of the component Power Management. The manipulation leads to Local Privilege Escalation. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2012-3204. Local access is required to approach this attack. No exploit exists. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.

Detailsinfo

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

Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Sun Solaris 11 allows local users to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors related to Power Management.

The weakness was disclosed 10/16/2012 with Oracle as cpuoct2012-1515893 as not defined advisory (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at oracle.com. The public release has been coordinated in cooperation with Oracle. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2012-3204 since 06/06/2012. The exploitation is known to be easy. Attacking locally is a requirement. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 76829 (Oracle Solaris Critical Patch Update : oct2012_SRU10_5), 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 120906 (Solaris 11 Support Repository Update (SRU) 10.5/10.5a 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 (76829), SecurityFocus (BID 56048†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-36632†). darkreading.com is providing further details. The entries VDB-6718, VDB-6719, VDB-6788 and VDB-6696 are pretty similar. Be aware that VulDB is the high quality 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: 76829
Nessus Name: Oracle Solaris Critical Patch Update : oct2012_SRU10_5
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: oracle.com

Advisory: cpuoct2012-1515893
Organization: Oracle
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2012-3204 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2012-3204
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-6767
SecurityFocus: 56048 - Oracle Solaris CVE-2012-3204 Local Security Vulnerability
Vulnerability Center: 36632 - [cpuoct2012-1515893] Oracle Sun Solaris 10, 11 Remote Unspecified Vulnerability (CVE-2012-3204), High

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Entryinfo

Created: 10/18/2012 10:00
Updated: 12/14/2024 20:42
Changes: 10/18/2012 10:00 (61), 04/19/2017 10:31 (12), 04/18/2021 13:12 (2), 12/14/2024 20:42 (19)
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