CVEvulnerability
CVE-2009-2972
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2009-08-27
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
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."
Affected configurations
• sun solaris 8
• sun solaris 9
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36445 Vendor Advisory
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-109320-23-1 Patch
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-264608-1 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36148 Patch
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2417 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6225 oval.cisecurity.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36445 Vendor Advisory
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-109320-23-1 Patch
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-264608-1 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36148 Patch
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2417 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6225 oval.cisecurity.org