CVE-2009-2644

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-07-29 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-362

Description

Race condition in the Solaris Auditing subsystem in Sun Solaris 9 and 10 and OpenSolaris before snv_121, when extended file attributes are used, allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) via vectors related to "pathnames for invalid fds."

Affected products

Sun Opensolaris: snv_01, snv_02, snv_03, snv_04, snv_05, snv_06 (+115)
Sun Solaris: 9.0, 10.0

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/36042
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-122300-42-1
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-264429-1
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1020766.1-1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35835
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2022
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6168
http://secunia.com/advisories/36042
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-122300-42-1
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-264429-1
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1020766.1-1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35835

Get alerted when CVE-2009-2644 or the next vulnerability affects your stack