CVE-2009-2972 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

in.lpd in the print service in Sun Solaris 8 and 9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via unspecified vectors that trigger a "fork()/exec() bomb."

Published: 2009-08-27

Score: 7.8 High

EPSS: 1.7% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:sun:solaris:8::sparc:::::
	cpe:2.3:o:sun:solaris:8::x86:::::
	cpe:2.3:o:sun:solaris:9::sparc:::::
	cpe:2.3:o:sun:solaris:9::x86:::::

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2009-2957	in.lpd in the print service in Sun Solaris 8 and 9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via unspecified vectors that trigger a "fork()/exec() bomb."

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Complete

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.01706.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://secunia.com/advisories/36445
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-109320-23-1
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-264608-1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36148
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2417
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6225

History

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Subscriptions

Sun Solaris

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2009-08-27T17:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T06:07:37.445Z

Reserved: 2009-08-27T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2009-2972

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2009-08-27T17:30:00.267

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2009-2972

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-399

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