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CVE-2009-2857

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.5 Published: 2009-08-19 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

The kernel in Sun Solaris 8, 9, and 10, and OpenSolaris before snv_103, does not properly handle interaction between the filesystem and virtual-memory implementations, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (deadlock and system halt) via vectors involving mmap and write operations on the same file.

Affected Platforms

Oracle SolarisOracle Opensolaris

Weakness Type

CWE-667, CWE-667

References