Oracle Solaris 10/11 Kernel denial of service

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as problematic has been reported in Oracle Solaris 10/11. This affects an unknown function of the component Kernel. The manipulation leads to denial of service. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2012-3212. The attack must be carried out locally. There is no available exploit. Applying a patch is the recommended action to fix this issue.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Oracle Solaris 10/11 (Operating System) and classified as problematic. This issue affects an unknown code of the component Kernel. 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. The summary by CVE is:

Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Sun Solaris 10 and 11, when running on SPARC T4 servers, allows local users to affect availability via unknown vectors related to Kernel.

The weakness was presented 10/16/2012 with Oracle as cpuoct2012-1515893 as not defined advisory (Website). The advisory is shared at oracle.com. The public release was coordinated in cooperation with Oracle. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2012-3212 since 06/06/2012. An attack has to be approached locally. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 76831 (Oracle Solaris Critical Patch Update : oct2012_SRU12_4), 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 120600 (Solaris Kernel Multiple Local Vulnerabilities).

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 (76831), SecurityFocus (BID 56038†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-36663†). darkreading.com is providing further details. See VDB-6718, VDB-6719, VDB-6788 and VDB-6696 for similar entries. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
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Local: Yes
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Nessus ID: 76831
Nessus Name: Oracle Solaris Critical Patch Update : oct2012_SRU12_4
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Vendor: oracle.com

Advisory: cpuoct2012-1515893
Organization: Oracle
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2012-3212 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2012-3212
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-6773

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SecurityFocus: 56038 - Oracle Solaris CVE-2012-3212 Local Security Vulnerability
Vulnerability Center: 36663 - [cpuoct2012-1515893] Oracle Sun Solaris 10, 11 on SPARC T4 Servers Local Unspecified Vulnerability Affects Availability, Medium

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Entryinfo

Created: 10/18/2012 10:00
Updated: 04/18/2021 13:31
Changes: 10/18/2012 10:00 (63), 04/19/2017 10:31 (14), 04/18/2021 13:31 (2)
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