CVE-2006-1092

Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-03-09 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in the pagedata subsystem of the process file system (/proc) in Solaris 8 through 10 allows local users to cause a denial of service (system hang or panic) via unknown attack vectors that cause cause the kmem_oversize arena to allocate a large amount of system memory that does not get freed.

Affected products

Sun Solaris: 9.0, 10.0
Sunos: 5.8

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/19128
http://secunia.com/advisories/19716
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015723
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102159-1
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-081.htm
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16966
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0829
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25152
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1618
http://secunia.com/advisories/19128
http://secunia.com/advisories/19716
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015723

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