CVE-2017-3631: oracle corporation solaris operating system

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2017-3631 is a medium (CVSS 5.3) vulnerability in oracle corporation solaris operating system. EPSS estimates a 5.99% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 93.2% of scored vulnerabilities. 3 public exploits are recorded.

Timeline

1. 22-06-2017
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 07-10-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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).

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.