CVE-2010-0453 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2010-0453

The ucode_ioctl function in intel/io/ucode_drv.c in Sun Solaris 10 and...

Vulnerability Description

The ucode_ioctl function in intel/io/ucode_drv.c in Sun Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris snv_69 through snv_133, when running on x86 architectures, allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) via a request with a 0 size value to the UCODE_GET_VERSION IOCTL, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference in the ucode_get_rev function, related to retrieval of the microcode revision.

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:
snv_69, snv_70, snv_71, snv_72, snv_73, snv_74, snv_75, snv_76, snv_77, snv_78, snv_79, snv_80, snv_81, snv_82, snv_83, snv_84, snv_85, snv_86, snv_87, snv_88, snv_89, snv_90, snv_91, snv_92, snv_93, snv_94, snv_95, snv_96, snv_97, snv_98, snv_99, snv_100, snv_101, snv_102, snv_103, snv_104, snv_105, snv_106, snv_107, snv_108, snv_109, snv_110, snv_111, snv_112, snv_113, snv_114, snv_115, snv_116, snv_117, snv_118, snv_119, snv_120, snv_121, snv_122, snv_123, snv_124, snv_125, snv_126, snv_127, snv_128, snv_129, snv_130, snv_131, snv_132, snv_133, 10.0

Timeline

Official Publish: February 3rd, 2010
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.