CVE-2009-2972

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-08-27 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

in.lpd in the print service in Sun Solaris 8 and 9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via unspecified vectors that trigger a "fork()/exec() bomb."

Affected products

Sun Solaris: 8, 9

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/36445
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-109320-23-1
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-264608-1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36148
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2417
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6225
http://secunia.com/advisories/36445
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-109320-23-1
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-264608-1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36148
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2417
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6225

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