CVE-2010-3540 Denial of service in n/a
Local attackers can cause a denial of service in Oracle Solaris via the ZFS file system.
- 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-2010-3540?
CVE-2010-3540 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Oracle Solaris, published on 14 Oct 2010. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris allows local users to affect availability, related to ZFS.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-3540?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Oracle Opensolaris, Oracle Solaris.
How do I fix CVE-2010-3540?
No fix has been published for CVE-2010-3540 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-2010-3540 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2010-3540 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Oracle Solaris
Sources
Also known as GHSA-j59f-3rx3-r2v6.