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CVE-2009-2857

MEDIUM

5.5

Description

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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score5.5

SeverityMEDIUM

CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack VectorLOCAL

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredLOW

User InteractionNONE

Published8/19/2009

Last Modified4/23/2026

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

oracle:opensolarisoracle:solaris

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-667CWE-667

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/36319(cve@mitre.org)

http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-127721-02-1(cve@mitre.org)

http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-257848-1(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2291(cve@mitre.org)

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6152(cve@mitre.org)

http://secunia.com/advisories/36319(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-127721-02-1(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-257848-1(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2291(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6152(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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