CVE-2009-3706: Sun Opensolaris

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

Unspecified vulnerability in the ZFS filesystem in Sun Solaris 10, and OpenSolaris snv_100 through snv_117, allows local users to bypass intended limitations of the file_chown_self privilege via certain uses of the chown system call.

Affected products

• Sun Opensolaris: version snv_100 only; version snv_101 only; version snv_102 only; version snv_103 only; version snv_104 only; version snv_105 only; …
• Sun Solaris: version 10 only; version 10.0 only

Published 2009-10-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.