CVE-2009-0304: Sun Opensolaris

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 9.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The kernel in Sun Solaris 10 and 11 snv_101b, and OpenSolaris before snv_108, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a crafted IPv6 packet, related to an "insufficient validation security vulnerability," as demonstrated by SunOSipv6.c.

Affected products

• Sun Opensolaris: up to and including snv_107; version snv_01 only; version snv_02 only; version snv_03 only; version snv_04 only; version snv_05 only; …
• Sun Solaris: version 10 only

Published 2009-01-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.