CVE-2009-0480 Denial of service in n/a
Local attackers can cause denial of service in Sun Solaris by exhausting socket minor number resources, impacting 32-bit applications and logins.
- 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-2009-0480?
CVE-2009-0480 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Sun Opensolaris, published on 9 Feb 2009. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The IP implementation in Sun Solaris 8 through 10, and OpenSolaris before snv_82, uses an improper arena when allocating minor numbers for sockets, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (32-bit application failure and login outage) by opening a large number of sockets.
Weakness: CWE-189
Which versions are affected by CVE-2009-0480?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Sun Opensolaris, Sun Solaris.
How do I fix CVE-2009-0480?
No fix has been published for CVE-2009-0480 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-2009-0480 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2009-0480 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Sun Opensolaris
Sources
Also known as GHSA-29p3-gqrh-c7mr.