Oracle Solaris Critical Patch Update : apr2012_SRU4

medium Nessus Plugin ID 76801

Synopsis

The remote Solaris system is missing a security patch from CPU apr2012.

Description

This Solaris system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates :

- Vulnerability in the Solaris component of Oracle Sun Products Suite (subcomponent: gssd(1M)). Supported versions that are affected are 8, 9, 10 and 11. Very difficult to exploit vulnerability requiring logon to Operating System plus additional, multiple logins to components. Successful attack of this vulnerability can escalate attacker privileges resulting in unauthorized Operating System takeover including arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2012-1683)

- Vulnerability in the Solaris component of Oracle Sun Products Suite (subcomponent: Kernel/Privileges). The supported version that is affected is 11. Difficult to exploit vulnerability requiring logon to Operating System plus additional login/authentication to component or subcomponent. Successful attack of this vulnerability can escalate attacker privileges resulting in unauthorized Operating System takeover including arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2012-1691)

- Vulnerability in the Solaris component of Oracle Sun Products Suite (subcomponent: Kernel/GLD(7D)). The supported version that is affected is 11. Very difficult to exploit vulnerability allows successful authenticated network attacks via TCP/IP. Successful attack of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized read access to a subset of Solaris accessible data. (CVE-2012-1698)

Solution

Install the apr2012 CPU from the Oracle support website.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?75401354

http://www.nessus.org/u?7ef6c355

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 76801

File Name: solaris_apr2012_SRU4.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Published: 7/26/2014

Updated: 8/11/2022

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.6

Temporal Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:oracle:solaris:11.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Solaris11/release

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/17/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/3/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-1683, CVE-2012-1691, CVE-2012-1698

BID: 53128, 53130, 53137