CVE-2013-5872 Denial of service in n/a
Local attackers can cause a denial of service in Oracle Solaris via the Name Service Cache Daemon.
- 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-2013-5872?
CVE-2013-5872 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in Sun Sunos, published on 15 Jan 2014. 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 11.1 allows local users to affect availability via vectors related to Name Service Cache Daemon (NSCD).
Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-5872?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Oracle Sunos, Sun Sunos.
How do I fix CVE-2013-5872?
No fix has been published for CVE-2013-5872 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-2013-5872 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-5872 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Sun Sunos
- CVE-2013-5866 Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Solaris 11.1 allows local users to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors related to Kernel.
- CVE-2014-2469 Unspecified vulnerability in lighttpd in Oracle Solaris 11.1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service via unknown vectors.
- CVE-2014-4215 Denial of service in n/a
- CVE-2014-4224 Denial of service in n/a
- CVE-2014-0447 Denial of service in n/a
Sources
Also known as GHSA-574v-p84w-424w.