CVE-2018-3266: Oracle Solaris Verified Boot vuln

Vulnerability in the Solaris component of Oracle Sun Systems Products Suite (subcomponent: Verified Boot). The supported version that is affected is 11.3. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Solaris executes to compromise Solaris. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some of Solaris accessible data as well as unauthorized read access to a subset of Solaris accessible data and unauthorized ability to cause a partial denial of service (partial DOS) of Solaris.

https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.html

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-3266

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-3266

Current Exploit Price (≈) 3.9 $5k-$25k

https://vuldb.com/?id.125643

 

Oracle Solaris 11.4: UEFI Secure Boot on Intel HW

UEFI Secure Boot on Oracle Solaris x86 enables you to install and boot Oracle Solaris on platforms where UEFI Secure Boot is enabled. This feature provides more security by maintaining a chain of trust during boot: digital signatures of the firmware and software are verified before executing the next stage. No break occurs in the chain because of unsigned, corrupt, or rogue firmware or software during the boot process. This feature helps assure that the firmware and software used to boot Oracle Solaris on a hardware platform is correct, and has not been modified or corrupted.

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E72435_01/html/E72445/grijo.html
https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37838_01/html/E60974/index.html
https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/oracle-solaris-114-beta-released
https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland/tree/master/components/shim
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Oracle-Linux-7-Update-4

 

 

Oracle kills off SPARC/Solaris

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/31/oracle_stops_prolonging_inevitable_layoffs/

https://www.thelayoff.com/t/P23GpT5

https://www.thelayoff.com/t/P2twa2w