CVE-2009-2137 Denial of service in n/a
A memory leak in the Solaris Ultra-SPARC T2 crypto driver allows attackers to cause denial of service via large key lengths.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not stated
- Attackable
- Not stated
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2009-2137?
CVE-2009-2137 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Sun Opensolaris, published on 19 Jun 2009.
Official description
Memory leak in the Ultra-SPARC T2 crypto provider device driver (aka n2cp) in Sun Solaris 10, and OpenSolaris snv_54 through snv_112, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via unspecified vectors related to a large keylen value.
Weakness: CWE-399
Which versions are affected by CVE-2009-2137?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Sun Opensolaris, Sun Solaris.
How do I fix CVE-2009-2137?
No fix has been published for CVE-2009-2137 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-2009-2137 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2009-2137 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Sun Opensolaris
Sources
Also known as GHSA-62hf-v7wh-mw79.