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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Sun Solaris up to 10.0 (Operating System). This issue affects an unknown code block of the component Syslog. 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 Sun Solaris 8, 9, and 10 before 20060925 allows local users to cause a denial of service (disable syslog) and prevent security messages from being logged via unspecified vectors.
The bug was discovered 09/25/2006. The weakness was disclosed 09/26/2006 with Sun Microsystems Inc. (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at sunsolve.sun.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2006-5012 since 09/26/2006. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.
It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 19843 (Solaris 9 (x86) : 118559-39), 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.
Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at sunsolve.sun.com. A possible mitigation has been published 3 years after the disclosure of the vulnerability.
The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (29149) and Tenable (19843). The entries 2555, 2566, 2579 and 32534 are pretty similar.
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CPE 2.3
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Class: Denial of serviceCWE: CWE-404
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Nessus ID: 19843
Nessus Name: Solaris 9 (x86) : 118559-39
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Patch: sunsolve.sun.com
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Sources
Vendor: oracle.comAdvisory: sunsolve.sun.com⛔
Researcher: http://www.sun.com
Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc.
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2006-5012 (🔍)
X-Force: 29149 - Sun Solaris syslog denial of service, Medium Risk
SecurityTracker: 1016929
Vulnerability Center: 12786 - Sun Solaris 8, 9, 10 Syslog Local DoS and Prevention of Security Messages Logging, Low
SecurityFocus: 20211 - Sun Solaris Syslog Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia: 22587 - Avaya CMS / IR Sun Solaris "syslog" Denial of Service, Not Critical
OSVDB: 29153 - Solaris syslog Local DoS
Vupen: ADV-2006-3768
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Entry
Created: 09/27/2006 12:56Updated: 07/08/2019 18:55
Changes: 09/27/2006 12:56 (96), 07/08/2019 18:55 (2)
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