CVE-2019-2577 Denial of service in Solaris Operating System

Low 3.3 Published 23 Apr 2019 Updated 2 Oct 2024

A low-privileged attacker with local access can cause a partial denial of service in Oracle Solaris File Locking Services.

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-2019-2577?

CVE-2019-2577 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in Oracle Solaris, published on 23 Apr 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: File Locking Services). The supported version that is affected is 11. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged 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 3.3 (Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L).

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-2577?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Oracle Solaris.

How do I fix CVE-2019-2577?

No fix has been published for CVE-2019-2577 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-2019-2577 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-2577 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as GHSA-fm7p-vqmh-43rf.