CVE-2007-6216 Race condition in n/a

Medium 4.7 Published 4 Dec 2007 Updated 7 Aug 2024

Local attackers can cause a system hang in Sun Solaris 10 by exploiting a race condition in the Fibre Channel driver and devfs.

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-2007-6216?

CVE-2007-6216 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Sun Solaris, published on 4 Dec 2007. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Race condition in the Fibre Channel protocol (fcp) driver and Devices filesystem (devfs) in Sun Solaris 10 allows local users to cause a denial of service (system hang) via some programs that access hardware resources, as demonstrated by the (1) cfgadm and (2) format programs.

Weakness: CWE-362

Which versions are affected by CVE-2007-6216?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Sun Solaris, Sun Sunos.

How do I fix CVE-2007-6216?

No fix has been published for CVE-2007-6216 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2007-6216 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2007-6216 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Sun Solaris vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-jj68-3m94-5qj6.