CVE-2018-3272 Denial of service in Solaris Operating System

Medium 6.2 Published 17 Oct 2018 Updated 2 Oct 2024

An unauthenticated local attacker can cause a complete denial of service in Solaris Kernel Zones via the Virtualized NIC Driver.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: Not needed
Attackable: Local or same network only
Victim action needed: Not needed
Fix: None listed

What is CVE-2018-3272?

CVE-2018-3272 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Oracle Solaris, published on 17 Oct 2018. 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 Zones Virtualized NIC Driver). The supported version that is affected is 11.3. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated 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. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 6.2 (Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-3272?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Oracle Solaris.

How do I fix CVE-2018-3272?

No fix has been published for CVE-2018-3272 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-2018-3272 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-3272 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as GHSA-7g4v-wf5m-rgj4.