Oracle Solaris Critical Patch Update : oct2012_SRU12_4

medium Nessus Plugin ID 76831

Synopsis

The remote Solaris system is missing a security patch from CPU oct2012.

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). Supported versions that are affected are 10 and 11. Difficult to exploit vulnerability requiring logon to Operating System. Successful attack of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized Operating System hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS). Note:
CVE-2012-3212 affects only Solaris on SPARC T4 servers.
(CVE-2012-3212)

- Vulnerability in the Solaris component of Oracle Sun Products Suite (subcomponent: mailx(1)). 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 update, insert or delete access to some Solaris accessible data as well as read access to a subset of Solaris accessible data. (CVE-2012-3165)

- Vulnerability in the Solaris component of Oracle Sun Products Suite (subcomponent: Kernel). Supported versions that are affected are 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 read access to a subset of Solaris accessible data. Note: CVE-2012-3209 and CVE-2012-3215 only affects Solaris on the SPARC platform.
(CVE-2012-3215)

Solution

Install the oct2012 CPU from the Oracle support website.

See Also

https://support.oracle.com/epmos/faces/DocumentDisplay?id=1475188.1

http://www.nessus.org/u?6c6537c6

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 76831

File Name: solaris_oct2012_SRU12_4.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Published: 7/26/2014

Updated: 8/11/2022

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

Temporal Score: 3.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/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: 10/16/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/17/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-3165, CVE-2012-3212, CVE-2012-3215

BID: 56012, 56016, 56038