Oracle Solaris 11.3 Files denial of service

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability labeled as problematic has been found in Oracle Solaris 11.3. The impacted element is an unknown function of the component Files. Such manipulation leads to denial of service. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2016-5487. The attack must be carried out locally. There is no available exploit. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability was found in Oracle Solaris 11.3 (Operating System) and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown part of the component Files. 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 confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Sun Solaris 11.3 allows local users to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors.

The weakness was presented 10/19/2016 with Oracle as Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - October 2016 as confirmed advisory (Website). The advisory is available at oracle.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2016-5487 since 06/16/2016. The exploitation is known to be easy. Local access is required to approach this attack. A simple authentication is necessary for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 94134 (Oracle Solaris Critical Patch Update : oct2016_SRU11_3_12_4_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 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 (94134) and SecurityFocus (BID 93742†). See VDB-4597, VDB-4598, VDB-79101 and VDB-80318 for similar entries. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit 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: 94134
Nessus Name: Oracle Solaris Critical Patch Update : oct2016_SRU11_3_12_4_0
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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-2016-5487 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2016-5487
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-92858
SecurityFocus: 93742 - Oracle Solaris CVE-2016-5487 Local Security Vulnerability
SecurityTracker: 1037048

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Entryinfo

Created: 10/19/2016 10:22
Updated: 09/27/2022 09:28
Changes: 10/19/2016 10:22 (66), 05/13/2019 18:34 (12), 09/27/2022 09:28 (3)
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Cache ID: 216:AF0:103

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