CVE-2007-4495 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 4.9 Published 23 Aug 2007 Updated 7 Aug 2024

Local attackers can cause a system panic in Sun Solaris 10 via a specific ioctl call in the ATA disk driver.

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-2007-4495?

CVE-2007-4495 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Sun Solaris, published on 23 Aug 2007. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Unspecified vulnerability in the ata disk driver in Sun Solaris 10 on the x86 platform before 20070821 allows local users to cause a denial of service (system panic) via an unspecified ioctl function, aka Bug 6433124.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2007-4495?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Sun Solaris.

How do I fix CVE-2007-4495?

No fix has been published for CVE-2007-4495 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-2007-4495 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2007-4495 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as GHSA-gx7v-h3m2-w6v5.