CVE-2008-2708 Denial of service in n/a
Local attackers can cause a system panic in Sun Solaris and OpenSolaris via unspecified vectors in UltraSPARC T2 kernel modules.
- 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-2008-2708?
CVE-2008-2708 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Sun Opensolaris, published on 16 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 Sun (1) UltraSPARC T2 and (2) UltraSPARC T2+ kernel modules in Sun Solaris 10, and OpenSolaris before snv_93, allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) via unspecified vectors, probably related to core files.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-2708?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Sun Opensolaris, Sun Sunos.
How do I fix CVE-2008-2708?
No fix has been published for CVE-2008-2708 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-2008-2708 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-2708 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Sun Opensolaris
Sources
Also known as GHSA-vgrp-wvp9-2pfm.