CVE-2009-2857 Information

Description

The kernel in Sun Solaris 8 9 and 10 and OpenSolaris before snv_103 does not properly handle interaction between the filesystem and virtual-memory implementations which allows local users to cause a denial of service (deadlock and system halt) via vectors involving mmap and write operations on the same file.

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/36319 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-127721-02-1 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-257848-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2291 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A6152