Oracle Solaris 11.3 Fwflash denial of service

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability described as critical has been identified in Oracle Solaris 11.3. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component Fwflash. The manipulation results in denial of service. This vulnerability was named CVE-2016-0669. The attack needs to be approached locally. There is no available exploit. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Oracle Solaris 11.3 (Operating System). Affected is an unknown code block of the component Fwflash. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. This is going to have an impact on integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Sun Solaris 11.3 allows local users to affect integrity and availability via vectors related to Fwflash.

The weakness was presented 04/19/2016 as Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - April 2016 as confirmed advisory (Website). The advisory is shared for download at oracle.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2016-0669 since 12/09/2015. The exploitability is told to be easy. The attack needs to be approached locally. Additional levels of successful authentication are necessary for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 90621 (Oracle Solaris Critical Patch Update : apr2016_SRU11_3_6_5_0), 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 124841 (Solaris 11.3 Support Repository Update (SRU) 6.5.0 Missing).

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (90621). See VDB-12776, VDB-70401, VDB-70400 and VDB-71440 for similar entries. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
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Nessus ID: 90621
Nessus Name: Oracle Solaris Critical Patch Update : apr2016_SRU11_3_6_5_0
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Vendor: oracle.com

Advisory: Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - April 2016
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2016-0669 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2016-0669
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-82668
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Entryinfo

Created: 04/21/2016 09:01
Updated: 07/26/2022 08:39
Changes: 04/21/2016 09:01 (54), 10/20/2018 09:24 (19), 07/26/2022 08:39 (3)
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