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National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-3127

Original release date:06/21/2006
Last revised:03/07/2011
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

Memory leak in Network Security Services (NSS) 3.11, as used in Sun Java Enterprise System 2003Q4 through 2005Q1 and Java System Directory Server 5.2, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by performing a large number of RSA cryptographic operations.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
CVSS v2 Base Score:7.8 (HIGH) (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C) (legend)
Impact Subscore: 6.9
Exploitability Subscore: 10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown

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External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2007-1573
Type: Advisory
External Source: BID
Name: 20846
External Source: BID
Name: 18604
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2006-728
External Source: SUNALERT
Name: 102896
External Source: SUNALERT
Name: 102461
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1016294
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 25048
Type: Advisory

Vulnerable software and versions

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spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:sun:java_enterprise_system:2005q1
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:sun:java_system_directory_server:5.2
* Denotes Vulnerable Software

Technical Details

Vulnerability Type (View All)
  • Resource Management Errors (CWE-399)