Executive Summary

Summary
Title Sun Alert 254088 A Security Vulnerability With the Solaris Crypto Driver May Cause a System Panic
Informations
Name SUN-254088 First vendor Publication 2009-03-04
Vendor Sun Last vendor Modification 2009-03-04
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 4.9 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 6.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 3.9 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Product: Solaris 10 Operating System OpenSolaris

A security vulnerability in the Solaris crypto pseudo device driver may allow a local unprivileged user to panic the system causing a Denial of Service (DoS).

State: Resolved
First released: 04-Mar-2009

Original Source

Url : http://blogs.sun.com/security/entry/sun_alert_254088_a_security

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5641
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5641
Title: A Security Vulnerability With the Solaris Crypto Driver May Cause a System Panic
Description: The crypto pseudo device driver in Sun Solaris 10, and OpenSolaris snv_88 through snv_102, does not properly free memory, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) via unspecified vectors, related to the vmem_hash_delete function.
Family: unix Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2009-0838
Version: 1
Platform(s): Sun Solaris 10
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Os 39
Os 1

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
52508 Solaris Crypto Pseudo Device Driver Unspecified Local DoS

Solaris contains a flaw that may allow a local denial of service. The issue is triggered by an unspecified issue in the crypto pseudo device driver, and will result in loss of availability for the platform.