CVE-2019-2545 Denial of service in Solaris Operating System

Medium 4.0 Published 16 Jan 2019 Updated 2 Oct 2024

An unauthenticated local attacker can cause a partial denial of service in Oracle Solaris via the LDoms IO component.

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-2019-2545?

CVE-2019-2545 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Oracle Solaris, published on 16 Jan 2019. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Vulnerability in the Oracle Solaris component of Oracle Sun Systems Products Suite (subcomponent: LDoms IO). Supported versions that are affected are 10 and 11. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle Solaris executes to compromise Oracle Solaris. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a partial denial of service (partial DOS) of Oracle Solaris. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 4.0 (Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L).

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-2545?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Oracle Solaris.

How do I fix CVE-2019-2545?

No fix has been published for CVE-2019-2545 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-2019-2545 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-2545 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as GHSA-2w2x-2pf7-45x3.