Vulnerabilities > CVE-2009-3519 - Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in Oracle Opensolaris and Solaris
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
COMPLETE Summary
Multiple memory leaks in the IP module in the kernel in Sun Solaris 8 through 10, and OpenSolaris before snv_109, allow local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via vectors related to (1) M_DATA, (2) M_PROTO, (3) M_PCPROTO, and (4) M_SIG STREAMS messages.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| OS | 5 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- HTTP DoS An attacker performs flooding at the HTTP level to bring down only a particular web application rather than anything listening on a TCP/IP connection. This denial of service attack requires substantially fewer packets to be sent which makes DoS harder to detect. This is an equivalent of SYN flood in HTTP. The idea is to keep the HTTP session alive indefinitely and then repeat that hundreds of times. This attack targets resource depletion weaknesses in web server software. The web server will wait to attacker's responses on the initiated HTTP sessions while the connection threads are being exhausted.
Nessus
| NASL family | Solaris Local Security Checks |
| NASL id | SOLARIS9_122300.NASL |
| description | SunOS 5.9: Kernel Patch. Date this patch was last updated by Sun : Nov/03/11 |
| last seen | 2020-06-01 |
| modified | 2020-06-02 |
| plugin id | 24858 |
| published | 2007-03-18 |
| reporter | This script is Copyright (C) 2007-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. |
| source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/24858 |
| title | Solaris 9 (sparc) : 122300-61 |