CVE-2009-0838 Denial of service in n/a
Local attackers can cause a system panic in Sun Solaris via improper memory freeing in the crypto driver.
- 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-2009-0838?
CVE-2009-0838 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Sun Opensolaris, published on 6 Mar 2009. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The crypto pseudo device driver in Sun Solaris 10, and OpenSolaris snv_88 through snv_102, does not properly free memory, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) via unspecified vectors, related to the vmem_hash_delete function.
Weakness: CWE-399
Which versions are affected by CVE-2009-0838?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Sun Opensolaris, Sun Sunos.
How do I fix CVE-2009-0838?
No fix has been published for CVE-2009-0838 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-2009-0838 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2009-0838 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Sun Opensolaris
Sources
Also known as GHSA-xgpw-5ww4-gfq7.