# CVE-2012-1687: Denial of service in n/a

> Local attackers can compromise integrity and availability of Oracle Solaris systems via Logical Domains vulnerabilities.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.6 (`AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:C`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 17 Jul 2012
- **Updated:** 6 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-j67g-xx3g-mcgp

## What is CVE-2012-1687?

CVE-2012-1687 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Sun Sunos, published on 17 Jul 2012. 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 11 allows local users to affect integrity and availability, related to Logical Domains (LDOM).

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-1687?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Sun Sunos.

## How do I fix CVE-2012-1687?

No fix has been published for CVE-2012-1687 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2012-1687 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-1687 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Sun Sunos

- [CVE-2010-4435](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2010-4435/): Memory corruption in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2008-4619](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-4619/): Denial of service in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2008-2144](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-2144/): Other in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2008-1369](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-1369/): Misconfiguration in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2001-1583](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2001-1583/): Command injection in n/a (critical 10.0)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2012-1687 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2012-1687 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Sun Sunos, published on 17 Jul 2012. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-1687 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Sun Sunos. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2012-1687/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2012-1687/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-1687
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-1687
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2012-1687

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