CVE-2006-3920 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The TCP implementation in Sun Solaris 8, 9, and 10 before 20060726 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) via a TCP packet with an incorrect sequence number, which triggers an ACK storm.

Published: 2006-07-28

Score: 5.0 Medium

EPSS: 2.0% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:sun:solaris:9.0::sparc:::::
	cpe:2.3:o:sun:solaris:10.0::sparc:::::
	cpe:2.3:o:sun:sunos:5.8:::::::*

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Remediation

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2006-3914	The TCP implementation in Sun Solaris 8, 9, and 10 before 20060726 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) via a TCP packet with an incorrect sequence number, which triggers an ACK storm.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.02029.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://secunia.com/advisories/21226
http://secunia.com/advisories/22425
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016589
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102206-1
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-204.htm
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2997
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/28048
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1374

History

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Subscriptions

Sun Solaris Sunos

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2006-07-28T22:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T18:48:39.270Z

Reserved: 2006-07-28T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2006-3920

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2006-07-28T22:04:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Link: CVE-2006-3920

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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