Oracle Solaris 11.3 Kernel denial of service

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in Oracle Solaris 11.3. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Kernel. The manipulation leads to denial of service. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2016-3497. The attack needs to be performed locally. There is not any exploit available. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Oracle Solaris 11.3 (Operating System). 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 11.3 allows local users to affect availability via vectors related to Kernel, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-5469 and CVE-2016-5471.

The weakness was released 07/19/2016 with Oracle as Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - July 2016 as confirmed advisory (Website). The advisory is shared at oracle.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2016-3497 since 03/17/2016. The exploitation is known to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. A simple authentication is needed for exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 92454 (Oracle Solaris Critical Patch Update : jul2016_SRU11_3_8_7_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 296003 (Solaris 11.3 Support Repository Update (SRU) 10.5.0 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 databases at Tenable (92454) and SecurityFocus (BID 91787†). Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at VDB-76354, VDB-78584, VDB-78603 and VDB-78601. 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: 92454
Nessus Name: Oracle Solaris Critical Patch Update : jul2016_SRU11_3_8_7_0
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: oracle.com

Advisory: Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - July 2016
Organization: Oracle
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2016-3497 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2016-3497
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-90101
SecurityFocus: 91787 - Oracle July 2016 Critical Patch Update Multiple Vulnerabilities
SecurityTracker: 1036407

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Entryinfo

Created: 07/20/2016 11:30
Updated: 09/08/2022 14:29
Changes: 07/20/2016 11:30 (66), 03/04/2019 12:15 (13), 09/08/2022 14:29 (3)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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