CVE-2009-0069 Denial of service in n/a
Local users can cause a system panic and denial of service in the Solaris NFSv4 client via a recursive mutex error.
- 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-2009-0069?
CVE-2009-0069 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Sun Opensolaris, published on 7 Jan 2009. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Unspecified vulnerability in the nfs4rename_persistent_fh function in the NFS 4 (aka NFSv4) client in the kernel in Sun Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris before snv_102 allows local users to cause a denial of service (recursive mutex_enter and panic) via unspecified vectors.
Weakness: CWE-399
Which versions are affected by CVE-2009-0069?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Sun Opensolaris, Sun Solaris.
How do I fix CVE-2009-0069?
No fix has been published for CVE-2009-0069 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-2009-0069 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2009-0069 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Sun Opensolaris
Sources
Also known as GHSA-2ffx-vrmx-vqgj.