CVE-2009-1207: Sun Opensolaris

Medium severity, CVSS 4.4. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Race condition in the dircmp script in Sun Solaris 8 through 10, and OpenSolaris snv_01 through snv_111, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files, probably involving a symlink attack on temporary files.

Affected products

• Sun Opensolaris: version snv_01 only; version snv_02 only; version snv_03 only; version snv_04 only; version snv_05 only; version snv_06 only; …
• Sun Solaris: version 8 only; version 9 only; version 10 only

Published 2009-04-01. Last modified 2026-06-16.