CVE-2018-2901 Denial of service in Solaris Operating System

Low 3.7 Published 18 Jul 2018 Updated 2 Oct 2024

An unauthenticated attacker can cause a partial denial of service on Solaris via network access through DHCP.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: Not needed
Attackable: Over the internet
Victim action needed: Not needed
Fix: None listed

What is CVE-2018-2901?

CVE-2018-2901 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in Oracle Solaris, published on 18 Jul 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Vulnerability in the Solaris component of Oracle Sun Systems Products Suite (subcomponent: Kernel). Supported versions that are affected are 10 and 11.2. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via DHCP to compromise Solaris. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a partial denial of service (partial DOS) of Solaris. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 3.7 (Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L).

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-2901?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Oracle Solaris.

How do I fix CVE-2018-2901?

No fix has been published for CVE-2018-2901 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-2018-2901 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-2901 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as GHSA-qq7q-wg3v-qj6m.