National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-3666
Original release date:08/13/2008
Last revised:03/18/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Unspecified vulnerability in Sun Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris before snv_96 allows (1) context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (panic) via vectors involving creation of a crafted file and use of the sendfilev system call, as demonstrated by a file served by an Apache 2.2.x web server with EnableSendFile configured; and (2) local users to cause a denial of service (panic) via a call to the sendfile system call, as reachable through the sendfilev library.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
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External Source: BID
Name: 30654
Type: Patch Information
External Source: SUNALERT
Name: 239186
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: sun-solaris-sendfilev-dos(44396)
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1020666
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-2337
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 31426
Type: Advisory
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5128
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 47375
