CVE-2008-5908 Other in n/a

What is CVE-2008-5908?

CVE-2008-5908 is a high-severity vulnerability in Sun Opensolaris, published on 16 Jan 2009. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Unspecified vulnerability in the root/boot archive tool in Sun OpenSolaris has unknown impact and local attack vectors, related to a "Temporary file vulnerability," aka Bug ID 6653455.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-5908?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Sun Opensolaris.

How do I fix CVE-2008-5908?

No fix has been published for CVE-2008-5908 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2008-5908 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-5908 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Sun Opensolaris

• CVE-2009-2296 Missing authorization in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2008-5010 Denial of service in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2008-0964 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 9.3
• CVE-2008-0965 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 9.3
• CVE-2008-7300 Security feature bypass in n/a High 8.5

All Sun Opensolaris vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-cxrr-vqh2-8wg4.