CVE-2006-4117 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can cause a system panic in Sun Solaris 10 by opening and closing many TCP connections, leading to denial of service.
- 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-2006-4117?
CVE-2006-4117 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Sun Solaris, published on 14 Aug 2006. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The squeue_drain function in Sun Solaris 10, possibly only when run on CMT processors, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service ("bad trap" and system panic) by opening and closing a large number of TCP connections ("heavy TCP/IP loads"). NOTE: the original report specifies the function name as "drain_squeue," but this is likely incorrect.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-4117?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Sun Solaris.
How do I fix CVE-2006-4117?
No fix has been published for CVE-2006-4117 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-2006-4117 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-4117 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Sun Solaris
Sources
Also known as GHSA-j9hv-5722-m3qf.