CVE-2008-5689

Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-12-19 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

tun in IP Tunnel in Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris snv_01 through snv_76 allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted SIOCGTUNPARAM IOCTL request, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference.

Affected products

Sun Opensolaris: snv_01, snv_02, snv_03, snv_04, snv_05, snv_06 (+73)
Sun Solaris: 10.0

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/33160
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4801
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-242266-1
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15962
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499352/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32904
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021464
http://www.trapkit.de/advisories/TKADV2008-015.txt
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3454
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47449
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5949
http://secunia.com/advisories/33160

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