CVE-2009-2297 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can cause a system panic in Solaris kernel UDP subsystem when Trusted Extensions are enabled, leading to denial of service.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2009-2297?
CVE-2009-2297 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Sun Opensolaris, published on 2 Jul 2009. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Unspecified vulnerability in the udp subsystem in the kernel in Sun Solaris 10, and OpenSolaris snv_90 through snv_108, when Solaris Trusted Extensions is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (panic) via unspecified vectors involving the crgetlabel function, related to a "TX panic." NOTE: this issue exists because of a regression in earlier kernel patches.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2009-2297?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Sun Opensolaris, Sun Solaris.
How do I fix CVE-2009-2297?
No fix has been published for CVE-2009-2297 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-2009-2297 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2009-2297 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Sun Opensolaris
Sources
Also known as GHSA-99jc-c7x2-j288.