CVE-2009-2912

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: 2009-08-21 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The (1) sendfile and (2) sendfilev functions in Sun Solaris 8 through 10, and OpenSolaris before snv_110, allow local users to cause a denial of service (panic) via vectors related to vnode function calls.

Affected products

Sun Opensolaris: through snv_109; snv_01, snv_02, snv_03, snv_04, snv_05, snv_06 (+102)
Sun Solaris: 8, 9, 10

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/36400
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-127721-02-1
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-258588-1
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1020445.1-1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36083
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2316
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5692
http://secunia.com/advisories/36400
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-127721-02-1
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-258588-1
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1020445.1-1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36083

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