National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-1673
Original release date:05/18/2009
Last revised:06/09/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The kernel in Sun Solaris 9 allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) by calling fstat with a first argument of AT_FDCWD.
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: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2009-1315
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: SUNALERT
Name: 257988
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-122300-40-1
Type: Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: solaris-fstat-dos(50557)
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2009-1388
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1022232
External Source: BID
Name: 34979
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-188.htm
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 35119
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 35103
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 54464