CVE-2009-2912 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 4.9 Published 20 Aug 2009 Updated 7 Aug 2024

Local users can cause a system panic and denial of service in Sun Solaris via specific sendfile function calls.

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-2009-2912?

CVE-2009-2912 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Sun Opensolaris, published on 20 Aug 2009. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The (1) sendfile and (2) sendfilev functions in Sun Solaris 8 through 10, and OpenSolaris before snv_110, allow local users to cause a denial of service (panic) via vectors related to vnode function calls.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2009-2912?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Sun Opensolaris, Sun Solaris.

How do I fix CVE-2009-2912?

No fix has been published for CVE-2009-2912 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-2009-2912 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2009-2912 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as GHSA-c4r8-9pm5-5275.