CVE-2009-0838

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: 2009-03-06 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

The crypto pseudo device driver in Sun Solaris 10, and OpenSolaris snv_88 through snv_102, does not properly free memory, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) via unspecified vectors, related to the vmem_hash_delete function.

Affected products

Sun Opensolaris: snv_88, snv_89, snv_90, snv_90-x86, snv_91, snv_92 (+11)
Sunos: 5.10

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/34149
http://secunia.com/advisories/34455
http://securitytracker.com/id?1021810
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-139498-04-1
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-254088-1
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-097.htm
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34000
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0606
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0815
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/49105
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5641
http://secunia.com/advisories/34149

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