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CVE-2009-2972

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-399 Resource Management Errors
Publication date:
27/08/2009
Last modified:
09/04/2025

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."

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.80 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0
7.80
Severity 2.0
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
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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