CVE-2017-3551 Denial of service in Solaris Operating System

Medium 6.6 Published 24 Apr 2017 Updated 7 Oct 2024

A local attacker can cause a complete denial of service and access or modify some data in the Solaris Smartcard Libraries.

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-2017-3551?

CVE-2017-3551 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Oracle Solaris, published on 24 Apr 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Vulnerability in the Solaris component of Oracle Sun Systems Products Suite (subcomponent: Smartcard Libraries). The supported version that is affected is 11.3. Easily "exploitable" vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Solaris executes to compromise Solaris. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of Solaris as well as unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some of Solaris accessible data and unauthorized read access to a subset of Solaris accessible data. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 6.6 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H).

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-3551?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Oracle Solaris.

How do I fix CVE-2017-3551?

No fix has been published for CVE-2017-3551 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-2017-3551 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-3551 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as GHSA-x7fj-fhg4-m96q.