CVE-2020-2944: oracle corporation solaris operating system Classic Buffer Overflow

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2020-2944 is a high (CVSS 8.8) Classic Buffer Overflow vulnerability in oracle corporation solaris operating system. EPSS estimates a 1.80% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 78.3% of scored vulnerabilities. 3 public exploits are recorded.

Timeline

1. 15-04-2020
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 27-09-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Vulnerability in the Oracle Solaris product of Oracle Systems (component: Common Desktop Environment). Supported versions that are affected are 10 and 11. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle Solaris executes to compromise Oracle Solaris. While the vulnerability is in Oracle Solaris, attacks may significantly impact additional products. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in takeover of Oracle Solaris. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 8.8 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H).

• CWE-120Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')The product copies an input buffer to an output buffer without verifying that the size of the input buffer is less than the size of the output buffer.