National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-5684
Original release date:12/19/2008
Last revised:03/04/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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).
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
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External Source: SUNALERT
Name: 243566
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-119067-11-1
Type: Patch Information
External Source: BID
Name: 32807
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-3431
External Source: MISC
Name: http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-513.htm
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1021391
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33325
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33157
Type: Advisory
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6003