CVE-2007-2989 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can crash the in.iked daemon in Sun Solaris 9 by sending malformed UDP packets, causing a 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-2007-2989?
CVE-2007-2989 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Sun Solaris, published on 1 Jun 2007. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The libike library in Sun Solaris 9 before 20070529 contains a logic error related to a certain pointer, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (in.iked daemon crash) by sending certain UDP packets with a source port different from 500. NOTE: this issue might overlap CVE-2006-2298.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2007-2989?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Sun Solaris.
How do I fix CVE-2007-2989?
No fix has been published for CVE-2007-2989 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-2007-2989 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2007-2989 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Sun Solaris
Sources
Also known as GHSA-jqwq-jvmr-qgmq.