National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-0838
Original release date:03/06/2009
Last revised:08/21/2010
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The crypto pseudo device driver in Sun Solaris 10, and OpenSolaris snv_88 through snv_102, does not properly free memory, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) via unspecified vectors, related to the vmem_hash_delete function.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.9
Exploitability Subscore:
3.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
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External Source: SUNALERT
Name: 254088
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-139498-04-1
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: sun-solaris-cryptodriver-dos(49105)
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2009-0815
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2009-0606
Type: Advisory
External Source: BID
Name: 34000
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-097.htm
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1021810
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 34455
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 34149
Type: Advisory
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5641
References to Check Content
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5641
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5
Technical Details
- Resource Management Errors (CWE-399)