National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-0268
Original release date:01/26/2009
Last revised:03/04/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Race condition in the pseudo-terminal (aka pty) driver module in Sun Solaris 8 through 10, and OpenSolaris before snv_103, allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) via unspecified vectors related to lack of "properly sequenced code" in ptc and ptsl.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.9
Exploitability Subscore:
3.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
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External Source: BID
Name: 33406
Type: Patch Information
External Source: SUNALERT
Name: 249586
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-113685-07-1
Type: Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: solaris-pseudo-terminal-dos(48179)
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1021640
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-034.htm
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33708
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6061