CVE-2009-0924 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 4.7 Published 17 Mar 2009 Updated 7 Aug 2024

Local attackers can cause a denial of service by hanging the UFS filesystem write operations in OpenSolaris 64-bit mode.

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-2009-0924?

CVE-2009-0924 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Sun Opensolaris, published on 17 Mar 2009. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Unspecified vulnerability in Sun OpenSolaris snv_39 through snv_45, when running in 64-bit mode on x86 architectures, allows local users to cause a denial of service (hang of UFS filesystem write) via unknown vectors related to the (1) ufs_getpage and (2) ufs_putapage routines, aka CR 6442712.

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2009-0924?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Sun Opensolaris, Sun Solaris.

How do I fix CVE-2009-0924?

No fix has been published for CVE-2009-0924 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-2009-0924 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2009-0924 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as GHSA-47cc-x9rh-39h6.