CVE-2006-3824

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2006-07-25 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

systeminfo.c for Sun Solaris allows local users to read kernel memory via a 0 variable count argument to the sysinfo system call, which causes a -1 argument to be used by the copyout function. NOTE: this issue has been referred to as an integer overflow, but it is probably more like a signedness error or integer underflow.

Affected products

Sun Solaris: 10.0

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/21148
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016555
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102343-1
http://www.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=410
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/440849/100/100/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/440986/100/100/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19104
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2936
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27901
http://secunia.com/advisories/21148
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016555
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102343-1

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