CVE-2009-2912: Sun Opensolaris

Medium severity, CVSS 4.9. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The (1) sendfile and (2) sendfilev functions in Sun Solaris 8 through 10, and OpenSolaris before snv_110, allow local users to cause a denial of service (panic) via vectors related to vnode function calls.

Affected products

• Sun Opensolaris: up to and including snv_109; version snv_01 only; version snv_02 only; version snv_03 only; version snv_04 only; version snv_05 only; …
• Sun Solaris: version 8 only; version 9 only; version 10 only

Published 2009-08-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.