CVSS 3.1
5.5 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2009-2857
The kernel in Sun Solaris 8, 9, and 10, and OpenSolaris before snv_103, does not properly handle interaction between the filesystem and virtual-memory implementations, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (deadlock and system halt) via vectors involving mmap and write operations on the same file.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 18% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-667
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- oracle:opensolaris
- oracle:solaris
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36319
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-127721-02-1
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-257848-1
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2291
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6152