CVE-2002-1589 is an unknown vulnerability affecting Solaris 8 and SunOS that can lead to a denial of service (system panic) for local users. This occurs when the 0x02 bit (TEST, KMF_DEADBEEF, or deadbeef) is set in the kmem_flags kernel parameter. The vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.1, indicating a local attack vector with low complexity and only a partial impact on availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, no known exploit code available in common databases like Metasploit or ExploitDB, and it has received no community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:sun:solaris:8.0:*:x86:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:sun:sunos:5.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.