CVE-2006-6275 Race condition in n/a

Medium 4.7 Published 4 Dec 2006 Updated 7 Aug 2024

Local attackers can trigger a kernel panic in Sun Solaris via a race condition, causing a denial of service.

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-2006-6275?

CVE-2006-6275 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Sun Solaris, published on 4 Dec 2006. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Race condition in the kernel in Sun Solaris 8 through 10 allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) via unspecified vectors, possibly related to the exitlwps function and SIGKILL and /proc PCAGENT signals.

Weakness: CWE-362

Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-6275?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Sun Solaris, Sun Sunos.

How do I fix CVE-2006-6275?

No fix has been published for CVE-2006-6275 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2006-6275 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-6275 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Sun Solaris vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-vhhf-7v7f-q5wv.