CVEvulnerability
CVE-2004-2686
7.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2004-12-31
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in the vfs_getvfssw function in Solaris 2.6, 7, 8, and 9 allows local users to load arbitrary kernel modules via crafted (1) mount or (2) sysfs system calls. NOTE: this might be the same issue as CVE-2004-1767, but there are insufficient details to be sure.
Affected configurations
• sun solaris 2.6
• sun solaris 7.0
• sun solaris 8.0
• sun solaris 9.0
• sun sunos
• sun sunos 5.7
• sun sunos 5.8
• sun sunos 5.9
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness
References
- http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2004/Apr/0081.html seclists.org
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1008833 Patch
- http://www.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Full-Disclosure/2004-04/0297.html www.derkeiler.com
- http://www.immunitysec.com/downloads/solaris_kernel_vfs.sxw.pdf www.immunitysec.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9962 Exploit, Patch
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1381 oval.cisecurity.org
- http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2004/Apr/0081.html seclists.org
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1008833 Patch
- http://www.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Full-Disclosure/2004-04/0297.html www.derkeiler.com
- http://www.immunitysec.com/downloads/solaris_kernel_vfs.sxw.pdf www.immunitysec.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9962 Exploit, Patch
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1381 oval.cisecurity.org