Vulnerabilities > CVE-2009-0131 - Local Denial Of Service vulnerability in Sun OpenSolaris 'posix_fallocate(3C)' System Call

047910
CVSS 4.9 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
COMPLETE
local
low complexity
sun

Summary

The UFS implementation in the kernel in Sun OpenSolaris snv_29 through snv_90 allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) via the single posix_fallocate test in the SUSv3 POSIX test suite, related to an F_ALLOCSP fcntl call.