CVE-2009-2857
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 5.5 · CWE-667
5.5CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
The kernel in Sun Solaris 8, 9, and 10, and OpenSolaris before snv_103, does not properly handle interaction between the filesystem and virtual-memory implementations, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (deadlock and system halt) via vectors involving mmap and write operations on the same file.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorLocal
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredLow
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)0%
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-127721-02-1 ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-127721-02-1Patch
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-257848-1Patch
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36319Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2291Advisory
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6152