CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
EPSS
Percentile
93.6%
The Sun Solaris Kernel SSL Proxy service contains a flaw that may allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service condition.
Sun Solaris 10 operating system provides a module called the SSL Kernel Proxy to improve the performance of applications that do SSL packet processing. This module contains an unspecified vulnerability that may allow an unprivileged remote attacker to act as an SSL client to cause the system to crash.
Sun states that the following versions are vulnerable:
SPARC Platform
Solaris 10 with patch 118822-29 or later and without patch 123304-01
x86 Platform
Solaris 10 with patch 118844-29 or later and without patch 118855-17
An unprivileged remote attacker may be able to cause an affected system’s kernel to panic, resulting in a denial-of-service condition.
Apply an Update
Sun has published patches to address this issue. Please see Sun Security Alert 102563 for additional details.
Workaround
Sun has issued the following workaround for this vulnerability:
To workaround this issue, disable all instances of the Kernel SSL Proxy service and re-configure applications which may depend on them. Note that this will remove the benefits otherwise gained by the Kernel SSL Proxy, such as the performance enhancements.
To disable the Kernel SSL Proxy service, the svcadm(1M) command can be used for each instance of the service:
_ # _svcadm disable svc:/network/ssl/proxy:<instance_suffix>
To disable and delete the Kernel SSL Proxy service, the ksslcfg(1M) can be used for each instance of the service:
_ # _ksslcfg delete [host] <ssl_port>
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Updated: January 29, 2007
Affected
We have not received a statement from the vendor.
The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.
Sun has published patches to address this issue. Please see Sun Security Alert 102563 for additional details.
If you have feedback, comments, or additional information about this vulnerability, please send us [email](<mailto:[email protected]?Subject=VU%23290428 Feedback>).
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This vulnerability was reported by Sun Microsystems in Sun Alert 102563
This document was written by Katie Steiner.
CVE IDs: | CVE-2006-5075 |
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Severity Metric: | 1.40 Date Public: |