CVE-2016-0458 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 4.0 Published Updated

Local attackers can cause a denial of service in Oracle Sun Solaris 11 via the Kernel DAX component.

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-2016-0458?

CVE-2016-0458 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Oracle Solaris, published on 21 Jan 2016. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Sun Solaris 11 allows local users to affect availability via vectors related to Kernel DAX.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-0458?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Oracle Solaris.

How do I fix CVE-2016-0458?

No fix has been published for CVE-2016-0458 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-2016-0458 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-0458 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Oracle Solaris vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-v72m-phjh-3jjp.

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