Vulnerabilities > CVE-2009-2952 - Local Denial Of Service vulnerability in SUN Opensolaris and Solaris

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
NVD
Published: 2009-08-24
Updated: 2017-09-19

Summary

Unspecified vulnerability in the pollwakeup function in Sun Solaris 10, and OpenSolaris before snv_51, allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) via unknown vectors.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
OS
Sun
102

Oval

accepted2009-10-05T04:00:06.640-04:00
classvulnerability
contributors
namePai Peng
organizationHewlett-Packard
definition_extensions
  • commentSolaris 10 (SPARC) is installed
    ovaloval:org.mitre.oval:def:1440
  • commentSolaris 10 (x86) is installed
    ovaloval:org.mitre.oval:def:1926
descriptionUnspecified vulnerability in the pollwakeup function in Sun Solaris 10, and OpenSolaris before snv_51, allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) via unknown vectors.
familyunix
idoval:org.mitre.oval:def:6392
statusaccepted
submitted2009-08-25T16:38:09.000-04:00
titleSecurity Vulnerability in Solaris pollwakeup(9F) May Allow an Unprivileged User to Panic the System
version35

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