CVE-2008-1778 Denial of service in n/a
Local attackers can cause denial of service, data corruption, or incorrect calculations in Sun Solaris via floating point context switch flaws.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2008-1778?
CVE-2008-1778 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Sun Sunos, published on 14 Apr 2008. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Unspecified vulnerability in the floating point context switch implementation in Sun Solaris 9 and 10 on x86 platforms might allow local users to cause a denial of service (application exit), corrupt data, or trigger incorrect calculations via unknown vectors.
Weakness: CWE-16
Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-1778?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Sun Sunos.
How do I fix CVE-2008-1778?
No fix has been published for CVE-2008-1778 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2008-1778 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-1778 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Sun Sunos
Sources
Also known as GHSA-8j68-94qg-c979.