CVE-2008-1778

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.6 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: none known
Published: 2008-04-14 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-16

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in the floating point context switch implementation in Sun Solaris 9 and 10 on x86 platforms might allow local users to cause a denial of service (application exit), corrupt data, or trigger incorrect calculations via unknown vectors.

Affected products

Sunos: 5.9, 5.10

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/29728
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-233921-1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28733
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019833
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1193/references
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41765
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A4950
http://secunia.com/advisories/29728
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-233921-1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28733
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019833
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1193/references

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