CVE-2008-5661

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-12-17 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

The IPv4 Forwarding feature in Sun Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris snv_47 through snv_82, with certain patches installed, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (panic) via unknown vectors that trigger a NULL pointer dereference.

Affected products

Sun Opensolaris: snv_47, snv_48, snv_49, snv_50, snv_51, snv_52 (+30)
Sun Solaris: 10

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/33148
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-241126-1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32861
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021413
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47378
http://secunia.com/advisories/33148
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-241126-1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32861
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021413
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47378

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