CVE-2016-3453 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2016-3453?

CVE-2016-3453 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Oracle Solaris, published on 21 Jul 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 10 allows local users to affect availability via vectors related to Kernel.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-3453?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Oracle Solaris.

How do I fix CVE-2016-3453?

No fix has been published for CVE-2016-3453 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-2016-3453 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-3453 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Oracle Solaris

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• CVE-2019-3010 Oracle Solaris Privilege Escalation Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2026-46978 Missing authorization in Oracle Solaris Critical 10.0
• CVE-2017-3623 Other in Solaris Operating System Critical 10.0
• CVE-2014-0397 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0

All Oracle Solaris vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-7mwh-722g-f38j.