CVE-2009-0480

CVE-2009-0480 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

The IP implementation in Sun Solaris 8 through 10, and OpenSolaris before snv_82, uses an improper arena when allocating minor numbers for sockets, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (32-bit application failure and login outage) by opening a large number of sockets.

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