CVE-2008-0933

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.7 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-02-25 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-362

Description

Multiple race conditions in the CPU Performance Counters (cpc) subsystem in the kernel in Sun Solaris 10 allow local users to cause a denial of service (panic) via unspecified vectors related to kcpc_unbind and kcpc_restore.

Affected products

Sun Solaris: 10.0

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/29052
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-231466-1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27941
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019490
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0642
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5476
http://secunia.com/advisories/29052
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-231466-1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27941
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019490
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0642
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5476

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