CVE-2017-3631 Memory corruption in Solaris Operating System
A local low-privileged attacker can exploit a kernel memory corruption flaw in Solaris to read, modify data, or cause partial denial of service.
- 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-2017-3631?
CVE-2017-3631 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Oracle Solaris, published on 22 Jun 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: Kernel). The supported version that is affected is 11. 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 update, insert or delete access to some of Solaris accessible data as well as unauthorized read access to a subset of Solaris accessible data and unauthorized ability to cause a partial denial of service (partial DOS) of Solaris. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 5.3 (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:L).
Weakness: CWE-119
Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-3631?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Oracle Solaris.
How do I fix CVE-2017-3631?
No fix has been published for CVE-2017-3631 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.
Is CVE-2017-3631 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2017-3631 exists.
Public exploit code: 1 Metasploit module and 3 Exploit-DB entries.
Other vulnerabilities in Oracle Solaris
Sources
Also known as GHSA-hm92-g5hw-f54f.