CVE-2006-1092 Denial of service in n/a

Low 2.1 Published 9 Mar 2006 Updated 7 Aug 2024

Local attackers can cause a system hang or panic in Solaris by triggering excessive memory allocation in the /proc filesystem.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: Any signed-in user
Attackable: Local or same network only
Victim action needed: Not needed
Fix: None listed

What is CVE-2006-1092?

CVE-2006-1092 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in Sun Solaris, published on 9 Mar 2006. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Unspecified vulnerability in the pagedata subsystem of the process file system (/proc) in Solaris 8 through 10 allows local users to cause a denial of service (system hang or panic) via unknown attack vectors that cause cause the kmem_oversize arena to allocate a large amount of system memory that does not get freed.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-1092?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Sun Solaris, Sun Sunos.

How do I fix CVE-2006-1092?

No fix has been published for CVE-2006-1092 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2006-1092 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-1092 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as GHSA-c7jc-54vg-28fc.