Oracle Solaris Critical Patch Update : jan2016_SRU11_3_4_5_0

medium Nessus Plugin ID 88003

Synopsis

The remote Solaris system is missing a security patch from CPU jan2016.

Description

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

- Vulnerability in the Solaris component of Oracle Sun Systems Products Suite (subcomponent: Grub2). The supported version that is affected is 11. Difficult to exploit vulnerability requiring logon to Operating System. Successful attack of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized Operating System takeover including arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2015-8370)

- Vulnerability in the Solaris component of Oracle Sun Systems Products Suite (subcomponent: Zones). The supported version that is affected is 11. Easily exploitable vulnerability requiring logon to Operating System plus additional, multiple logins to components.
Successful attack of this vulnerability can escalate attacker privileges resulting in unauthorized read access to a subset of Solaris accessible data.
(CVE-2016-0618)

Solution

Install the jan2016 CPU from the Oracle support website.

See Also

https://support.oracle.com/epmos/faces/DocumentDisplay?id=2091648.1

http://www.nessus.org/u?10ceb1c6

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 88003

File Name: solaris_jan2016_SRU11_3_4_5_0.nasl

Version: 2.13

Type: local

Published: 1/20/2016

Updated: 8/11/2022

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Temporal Score: 5.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:oracle:solaris:11.3

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/12/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/16/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8370, CVE-2016-0618

BID: 79358, 81114