National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-5685
Original release date:12/19/2008
Last revised:01/06/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Sun ScApp firmware 5.18.x, 5.19.x, and 5.20.0 through 5.20.10 on Sun Fire and Netra platforms allows remote attackers to access the System Controller (SC), the system console, and possibly the host OS, and cause a denial of service (shutdown or reboot), via spoofed IP packets.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides administrator access, Allows complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
Note: This issue only impacts systems that have a System Controller V2 without SSH enabled.
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-114527-12-1
Type: Patch Information
External Source: BID
Name: 32805
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-3440
External Source: SUNALERT
Name: 246746
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1021392
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33158
Type: Advisory