CVE-2007-2465 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 4.7 Published 2 May 2007 Updated 7 Aug 2024

Local users can cause a system panic in Sun Solaris 9 when BSM auditing is enabled for specific file operations.

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-2007-2465?

CVE-2007-2465 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Sun Solaris, published on 2 May 2007. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Unspecified vulnerability in Sun Solaris 9, when Solaris Auditing (BSM) is enabled for file read, write, attribute modify, create, or delete audit classes, allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) via unknown vectors, possibly related to the audit_savepath function.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2007-2465?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Sun Solaris, Sun Sunos.

How do I fix CVE-2007-2465?

No fix has been published for CVE-2007-2465 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-2007-2465 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2007-2465 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Sun Solaris vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-88m6-mx5f-rjjp.