CVE-2009-2596 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 4.7 Published 27 Jul 2009 Updated 17 Sep 2024

Local attackers can cause a system panic in Solaris when extended file attributes are used, requiring a patch to prevent denial of service.

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-2009-2596?

CVE-2009-2596 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Sun Opensolaris, published on 27 Jul 2009. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Unspecified vulnerability in the Solaris Auditing subsystem in Sun Solaris 9 and 10 and OpenSolaris before snv_121, when extended file attributes are used, allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) via vectors related to fad_aupath structure members.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2009-2596?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Sun Opensolaris, Sun Solaris.

How do I fix CVE-2009-2596?

No fix has been published for CVE-2009-2596 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-2009-2596 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2009-2596 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as GHSA-rmwh-hpr4-xw72.