Race condition in the pseudo-terminal (aka pty) driver module in Sun Solaris 8 through 10, and OpenSolaris before snv_103, allows local…

Description

Race condition in the pseudo-terminal (aka pty) driver module in Sun Solaris 8 through 10, and OpenSolaris before snv_103, allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) via unspecified vectors related to lack of "properly sequenced code" in ptc and ptsl.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.27% · top 81% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.9.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-362 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-362 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (8)

• http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-034.htm (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-113685-07-1 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 33406 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• 1021640 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6061 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
• solaris-pseudo-terminal-dos(48179) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• 249586 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERTx_transferred
• 33708 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 04:24 UTC.