CVE-2017-3242 Denial of service in LDOMS

What is CVE-2017-3242?

CVE-2017-3242 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Oracle LDOMS, published on 27 Jan 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Vulnerability in the Oracle VM Server for Sparc component of Oracle Sun Systems Products Suite (subcomponent: LDOM Manager). Supported versions that are affected are 3.2 and 3.4. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle VM Server for Sparc executes to compromise Oracle VM Server for Sparc. Successful attacks require human interaction from a person other than the attacker and while the vulnerability is in Oracle VM Server for Sparc, attacks may significantly impact additional products. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of Oracle VM Server for Sparc. CVSS v3.0 Base Score 5.9 (Availability impacts).

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-3242?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Oracle Vm Server.

How do I fix CVE-2017-3242?

No fix has been published for CVE-2017-3242 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-2017-3242 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-3242 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Oracle LDOMS

• CVE-2016-4480 Privilege escalation in n/a High 8.4
• CVE-2016-4962 Privilege escalation in n/a Medium 6.7
• CVE-2015-0452 Information disclosure in n/a Medium 4.3
• CVE-2020-2571 Missing authorization in LDOMS Low 3.3

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-p4x5-v2ff-r639.