CVE-2014-4215 Denial of service in n/a
Local attackers can cause a denial of service in Oracle Solaris via CPU performance counter drivers.
- 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-2014-4215?
CVE-2014-4215 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Sun Sunos, published on 17 Jul 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 CPU performance counters (CPC) drivers, a different vulnerability than CVE-2013-5862.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-4215?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Oracle Sunos, Sun Sunos.
How do I fix CVE-2014-4215?
No fix has been published for CVE-2014-4215 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-2014-4215 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-4215 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-2014-4224 Denial of service in n/a
- CVE-2014-0447 Denial of service in n/a
- CVE-2013-5876 Denial of service in n/a
Sources
Also known as GHSA-5cw9-5hjw-757r.