CVE-2009-3706

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.4 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: 2009-10-16 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in the ZFS filesystem in Sun Solaris 10, and OpenSolaris snv_100 through snv_117, allows local users to bypass intended limitations of the file_chown_self privilege via certain uses of the chown system call.

Affected products

Sun Opensolaris: snv_100, snv_101, snv_102, snv_103, snv_104, snv_105 (+12)
Sun Solaris: 10, 10.0

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/37010
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-141444-09-1
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-265908-1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36702
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2917
http://secunia.com/advisories/37010
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-141444-09-1
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-265908-1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36702
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2917

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