CVE-2010-4459 Denial of service in n/a
Local attackers can cause a denial of service in Oracle Solaris 11 Express via unspecified SCTP and kernel sockfs vectors.
- 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-2010-4459?
CVE-2010-4459 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Sun Sunos, published on 19 Jan 2011. 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 11 Express allows local users to affect availability via unknown vectors related to SCTP and Kernel/sockfs.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-4459?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Sun Sunos.
How do I fix CVE-2010-4459?
No fix has been published for CVE-2010-4459 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-2010-4459 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2010-4459 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Sun Sunos
Sources
Also known as GHSA-9q85-v4x8-53m9.