Oracle Solaris Critical Patch Update : apr2012_SRU3

medium Nessus Plugin ID 76800

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: Kernel/sockfs ). Supported versions that are affected are 8, 9, 10 and 11. Easily exploitable vulnerability requiring logon to Operating System. Successful attack of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized Operating System hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS).
(CVE-2012-1681)

- Vulnerability in the Solaris component of Oracle Sun Products Suite (subcomponent: Password Policy).
Supported versions that are affected are 8, 9, 10 and 11. Easily exploitable 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 update, insert or delete access to some Solaris accessible data as well as read access to a subset of Solaris accessible data and ability to cause a partial denial of service (partial DOS) of Solaris.
(CVE-2012-1684)

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: 76800

File Name: solaris_apr2012_SRU3.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Published: 7/26/2014

Updated: 8/11/2022

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/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-2012-1681, CVE-2012-1684

BID: 53135, 53138