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CVE-2009-2857

Medium

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.5
Exploit probability—
ProductOracle Opensolaris
PublishedAug 19, 2009
First seenAug 19, 2009
Weakness typeCWE-667CWE-667

How to fix

Update
  • oracle opensolarissnv_103 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
oracle opensolarisv < snv_103snv_103
oracle solaris8, 9, 10—

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