CVE-2008-5684

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-12-19 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in the X Inter Client Exchange library (aka libICE) in Sun Solaris 8 through 10 and OpenSolaris before snv_85 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash), as demonstrated by a port scan that triggers a segmentation violation in the Gnome session manager (aka gnome-session).

Affected products

Sun Opensolaris: through snv_84; snv_01, snv_02, snv_03, snv_04, snv_05, snv_06 (+78)
Sun Solaris: 8, 9, 10

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/33157
http://secunia.com/advisories/33325
http://securitytracker.com/id?1021391
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-119067-11-1
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-243566-1
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-513.htm
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32807
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3431
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47311
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6003
http://secunia.com/advisories/33157
http://secunia.com/advisories/33325

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