CVE-2009-2707 Denial of service in n/a
Local users can crash the system via a 32-bit x86 application on SUSE Linux Enterprise Itanium systems.
- 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-2009-2707?
CVE-2009-2707 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Server, published on 18 Sep 2009. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Unspecified vulnerability in ia32el (aka the IA 32 emulation functionality) before 7042_7022-0.4.2 in SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) 10 SP2 on Itanium IA64 machines allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a 32-bit x86 application.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2009-2707?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Server.
How do I fix CVE-2009-2707?
No fix has been published for CVE-2009-2707 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-2009-2707 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2009-2707 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-q4h5-29hc-m9pq.