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Oracle Solaris Critical Patch Update : jan2017_SRU11_3_15_4_0

medium Nessus Plugin ID 96601

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Synopsis

The remote Solaris system is missing a security patch from CPU jan2017.

Description

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

 - Vulnerability in the Solaris component of Oracle Sun Systems Products Suite (subcomponent: Kernel). The supported version that is affected is 11.3. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise Solaris. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some of Solaris accessible data. (CVE-2016-8330)

 - Vulnerability in the Solaris component of Oracle Sun Systems Products Suite (subcomponent: Kernel Zones virtualized block driver). The supported version that is affected is 11.3. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Solaris executes to compromise Solaris. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized creation, deletion or modification access to critical data or all Solaris accessible data and unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of Solaris. (CVE-2017-3276)

Solution

Install the jan2017 CPU from the Oracle support website.

See Also

https://support.oracle.com/epmos/faces/DocumentDisplay?id=2220066.1

http://www.nessus.org/u?724b555f

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2017.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 96601

File Name: solaris_jan2017_SRU11_3_15_4_0.nasl

Version: 3.14

Type: local

Published: 1/18/2017

Updated: 1/5/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-8330

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.7

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-3276

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:oracle:solaris:11.3

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/18/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/27/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-8330, CVE-2017-3276

BID: 95544, 95572