CVE-2009-2136

Published Jun 19, 2009

Last updated 15 years ago

Overview

Description
Unspecified vulnerability in the TCP/IP networking stack in Sun Solaris 10, and OpenSolaris snv_01 through snv_82 and snv_111 through snv_117, when a Cassini GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter (aka CE) interface is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (panic) via vectors involving jumbo frames.
Source
cve@mitre.org
NVD status
Modified

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Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
7.8
Impact score
6.9
Exploitability score
10
Vector string
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
NVD-CWE-noinfo

Evaluator

Comment
-
Impact
Per http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-257008-1 "Note 2: A system is only vulnerable to this issue if it is using a GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter (CE) interface (ce(7D)) which has been configured to accept jumbo frames, and hardware checksumming is enabled."
Solution
Per http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-257008-1 "Note 2: A system is only vulnerable to this issue if it is using a GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter (CE) interface (ce(7D)) which has been configured to accept jumbo frames, and hardware checksumming is enabled."

Configurations