CVE-2006-3920 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can cause denial of service via resource exhaustion in Sun Solaris TCP implementation using malformed packets.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2006-3920?
CVE-2006-3920 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Sun Solaris, published on 28 Jul 2006. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The TCP implementation in Sun Solaris 8, 9, and 10 before 20060726 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) via a TCP packet with an incorrect sequence number, which triggers an ACK storm.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-3920?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Sun Solaris, Sun Sunos.
How do I fix CVE-2006-3920?
No fix has been published for CVE-2006-3920 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-2006-3920 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-3920 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Sun Solaris
Sources
Also known as GHSA-xqjg-5cv9-m2h7.