CVE-2006-1780 Denial of service in n/a
Local attackers can crash the Bourne shell in Solaris via an unspecified attack vector during temporary file creation, causing denial of service.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2006-1780?
CVE-2006-1780 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in Sun Solaris, published on 13 Apr 2006. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The Bourne shell (sh) in Solaris 8, 9, and 10 allows local users to cause a denial of service (sh crash) via an unspecified attack vector that causes sh processes to crash during creation of temporary files.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-1780?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Sun Solaris, Sun Sunos.
How do I fix CVE-2006-1780?
No fix has been published for CVE-2006-1780 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2006-1780 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-1780 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Sun Solaris
Sources
Also known as GHSA-gg9w-5pvv-8r87.