Vulnerabilities > CVE-2006-1092 - Local Denial Of Service vulnerability in Sun Solaris Proc Filesystem Pagedata Subsystem

047910
CVSS 2.1 - LOW
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
PARTIAL
local
low complexity
sun

Summary

Unspecified vulnerability in the pagedata subsystem of the process file system (/proc) in Solaris 8 through 10 allows local users to cause a denial of service (system hang or panic) via unknown attack vectors that cause cause the kmem_oversize arena to allocate a large amount of system memory that does not get freed. This vulnerability affects all versions of Sun, Solaris 8.x through 10.x

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
OS
Sun
3

Oval

accepted2011-05-09T04:01:16.703-04:00
classvulnerability
contributors
  • nameRobert L. Hollis
    organizationThreatGuard, Inc.
  • nameNabil Ouchn
    organizationSecurity-Database
  • nameShane Shaffer
    organizationG2, Inc.
descriptionUnspecified vulnerability in the pagedata subsystem of the process file system (/proc) in Solaris 8 through 10 allows local users to cause a denial of service (system hang or panic) via unknown attack vectors that cause cause the kmem_oversize arena to allocate a large amount of system memory that does not get freed.
familyunix
idoval:org.mitre.oval:def:1618
statusaccepted
submitted2006-03-04T10:16:00.000-04:00
titlepagedata Subsystem Local DoS Vulnerability
version39