CVE-2008-5133

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-11-18 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

ipnat in IP Filter in Sun Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris before snv_96, when running on a DNS server with Network Address Translation (NAT) configured, improperly changes the source port of a packet when the destination port is the DNS port, which allows remote attackers to bypass an intended CVE-2008-1447 protection mechanism and spoof the responses to DNS queries sent by named.

Affected products

Sun Opensolaris: through snv_95; snv_01, snv_02, snv_03, snv_04, snv_05, snv_06 (+88)
Sun Solaris: 10

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/32625
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-245206-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3129
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46721
http://secunia.com/advisories/32625
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-245206-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3129
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46721

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