CVE-2009-0480

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.9 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: 2009-02-09 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

The IP implementation in Sun Solaris 8 through 10, and OpenSolaris before snv_82, uses an improper arena when allocating minor numbers for sockets, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (32-bit application failure and login outage) by opening a large number of sockets.

Affected products

Sun Opensolaris: through snv_81; snv_01, snv_02, snv_03, snv_04, snv_05, snv_06 (+74)
Sun Solaris: 8, 9, 10

References

http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/onnv-notify/2008-January/013262.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/33751
http://securitytracker.com/id?1021653
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-116965-34-1
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-248026-1
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-042.htm
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33550
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0364
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6038
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/onnv-notify/2008-January/013262.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/33751
http://securitytracker.com/id?1021653

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