Oracle Solaris 10/11.3 Filesystem denial of service

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Oracle Solaris 10/11.3 and classified as problematic. This affects an unknown function of the component Filesystem. The manipulation leads to denial of service. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2016-5553. Local access is required to approach this attack. No exploit exists. The affected component should be upgraded.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Oracle Solaris 10/11.3 (Operating System). This issue affects an unknown part of the component Filesystem. 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 11.3 allows local users to affect availability via unknown vectors.

The weakness was disclosed 10/19/2016 with Oracle as Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - October 2016 as confirmed advisory (Website). The advisory is shared at oracle.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2016-5553 since 06/16/2016. The exploitation is known to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. A simple authentication is necessary for exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 69904 (Solaris 10 (sparc) : 150400-59 (deprecated)), 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 296006 (Solaris 11.3 Support Repository Update (SRU) 13.4.0 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 (69904) and SecurityFocus (BID 93759†). The entries VDB-4597, VDB-4598, VDB-10804 and VDB-12962 are pretty similar. 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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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
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Nessus ID: 69904
Nessus Name: Solaris 10 (sparc) : 150400-59 (deprecated)
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: oracle.com

Advisory: Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - October 2016
Organization: Oracle
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2016-5553 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2016-5553
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-92837

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SecurityFocus: 93759 - Oracle Solaris CVE-2016-5553 Local Security Vulnerability
SecurityTracker: 1037048

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Entryinfo

Created: 10/19/2016 10:22
Updated: 09/27/2022 08:24
Changes: 10/19/2016 10:22 (67), 05/13/2019 16:15 (12), 09/27/2022 08:24 (3)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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