Affects:
- Opensolaris 10 and prior [Medium]
Description
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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CVE Identifier: CVE-2009-0480
Severity: Medium
NIST National Vulnerabilities Database
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