CVE-2009-2972: Sun Solaris

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 2.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

in.lpd in the print service in Sun Solaris 8 and 9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via unspecified vectors that trigger a "fork()/exec() bomb."

Affected products

• Sun Solaris: version 8 only; version 9 only

Published 2009-08-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.