CVE-2008-3666

Severity: high (CVSS 7.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-08-13 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

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.

Affected products

Sun Opensolaris: through snv_95; snv_01, snv_02, snv_03, snv_04, snv_05, snv_06 (+102)
Sun Solaris: 10
Sunos: 5.10

References

http://osvdb.org/47375
http://secunia.com/advisories/31426
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-239186-1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30654
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020666
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2337
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44396
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5128
http://osvdb.org/47375
http://secunia.com/advisories/31426
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-239186-1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30654

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