CVE-2008-5684 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can crash the Gnome session manager via a port scan, causing denial of service on Sun Solaris systems.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2008-5684?
CVE-2008-5684 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Sun Opensolaris, published on 19 Dec 2008. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Unspecified vulnerability in the X Inter Client Exchange library (aka libICE) in Sun Solaris 8 through 10 and OpenSolaris before snv_85 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash), as demonstrated by a port scan that triggers a segmentation violation in the Gnome session manager (aka gnome-session).
Weakness: CWE-399
Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-5684?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Sun Opensolaris, Sun Solaris.
How do I fix CVE-2008-5684?
No fix has been published for CVE-2008-5684 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-2008-5684 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-5684 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Sun Opensolaris
Sources
Also known as GHSA-7vxr-gv6r-9hg2.