CVE-2009-0319 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 6.9 Published 28 Jan 2009 Updated 7 Aug 2024

Local attackers can cause a denial of service or potentially gain privileges in the Solaris kernel autofs module via XDR processing flaws.

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-2009-0319?

CVE-2009-0319 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Sun Opensolaris, published on 28 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 autofs module in the kernel in Sun Solaris 8 through 10, and OpenSolaris before snv_108, allows local users to cause a denial of service (autofs mount outage) or possibly gain privileges via vectors related to "xdr processing problems."

Which versions are affected by CVE-2009-0319?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Sun Opensolaris, Sun Solaris.

How do I fix CVE-2009-0319?

No fix has been published for CVE-2009-0319 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-2009-0319 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2009-0319 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as GHSA-4f74-wg9f-2vfm.