CVE-2009-2857 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Complete

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00111.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Oracle	Opensolaris Solaris

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:oracle:opensolaris::::::::
	cpe:2.3:o:oracle:solaris:8:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:oracle:solaris:9:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:oracle:solaris:10:::::::*

No data.

No data.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
http://secunia.com/advisories/36319
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-127721-02-1
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-257848-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2291
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6152

History

Tue, 21 Jan 2025 16:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2009-08-19T17:00:00

Updated: 2025-01-21T16:04:44.027Z

Reserved: 2009-08-19T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2009-2857

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-07T06:07:36.392Z

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2009-08-19T17:30:01.170

Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Link: CVE-2009-2857

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

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