CVE-2009-2857 - CVE House
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Status published Unknown CVE-2009-2857

The kernel in Sun Solaris 8, 9, and 10, and...

Vulnerability Description

The kernel in Sun Solaris 8, 9, and 10, and OpenSolaris before snv_103, does not properly handle interaction between the filesystem and virtual-memory implementations, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (deadlock and system halt) via vectors involving mmap and write operations on the same file.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

opensolaris, solaris
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 8, 9, 10

Timeline

Official Publish: August 19th, 2009
Last Modified: January 21st, 2025
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

No vector data available

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.