CVE-2008-2552 Denial of service in n/a
Local attackers can cause disk consumption and denial of service in Sun Solaris via the Service Tag Registry.
- 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-2008-2552?
CVE-2008-2552 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 5 Jun 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 Service Tag Registry on Sun Solaris 10, and Sun Service Tag before 1.1.3, allows local users to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) via unspecified vectors.
Weakness: CWE-399
Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-2552?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Sun Service Tag.
How do I fix CVE-2008-2552?
No fix has been published for CVE-2008-2552 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-2008-2552 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-2552 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-3whv-622v-7cx9.