CVE-2008-5111 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 4.7 Published 17 Nov 2008 Updated 7 Aug 2024

Local attackers can cause a system panic in Solaris when InfiniBand hardware is absent, requiring a patch to prevent denial of service.

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-2008-5111?

CVE-2008-5111 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Sun Opensolaris, published on 17 Nov 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 socket function in Sun Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris snv_57 through snv_91, when InfiniBand hardware is not installed, allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) via unknown vectors, related to the socksdpv_close function.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-5111?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Sun Opensolaris, Sun Solaris.

How do I fix CVE-2008-5111?

No fix has been published for CVE-2008-5111 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-2008-5111 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-5111 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as GHSA-hw24-jcvx-73rr.