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CVE-2014-9491

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2015-01-20 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

The devzvol_readdir function in illumos does not check the return value of a strchr call, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and panic) via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• Illumos: all versions

References

• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q1/27
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/99686
• https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/commit/d65686849024838243515b5c40ae2c479460b4b5
• https://www.illumos.org/issues/5421
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q1/27
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/99686
• https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/commit/d65686849024838243515b5c40ae2c479460b4b5
• https://www.illumos.org/issues/5421

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