CVE-2008-3426 Denial of service in n/a
Local attackers can cause a denial of service in the Solaris Platform Information and Control Library daemon, disrupting system utilities.
- 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-2008-3426?
CVE-2008-3426 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in Sun Opensolaris, published on 31 Jul 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 Solaris Platform Information and Control Library daemon (picld) in Sun Solaris 8 through 10, and OpenSolaris builds snv_01 through snv_95, allows local users to cause a denial of service via unknown vectors that prevent operation of utilities such as prtdiag, prtpicl, and prtfru.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-3426?
It affects 3 products.
Products include Sun Opensolaris, Sun Solaris, Sun Sunos.
How do I fix CVE-2008-3426?
No fix has been published for CVE-2008-3426 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-2008-3426 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-3426 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Sun Opensolaris
Sources
Also known as GHSA-45jr-jmpw-3gj4.