Oracle Solaris Critical Patch Update : oct2015_SRU11_1_15_4_0

medium Nessus Plugin ID 86530

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Synopsis

The remote Solaris system is missing a security patch from CPU oct2015.

Description

This Solaris system is missing necessary patches to address a critical security update :

- Vulnerability in the Solaris component of Oracle Sun Systems Products Suite (subcomponent: Gzip). Supported versions that are affected are 10 and 11.2. Difficult to exploit vulnerability requiring logon to Operating System. Successful attack of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some Solaris accessible data as well as read access to a subset of Solaris accessible data and ability to cause a partial denial of service (partial DOS) of Solaris. (CVE-2015-2642)

Solution

Install the oct2015 CPU from the Oracle support website.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 86530

File Name: solaris_oct2015_SRU11_1_15_4_0.nasl

Version: 2.13

Type: local

Family: Solaris Local Security Checks

Published: 10/22/2015

Updated: 8/11/2022

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Temporal Score: 3.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:oracle:solaris:11.1

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Solaris11/release

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/27/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/21/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-2642

Detections

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