CVE-2008-5689 is a denial-of-service and potential arbitrary code execution vulnerability affecting the tun IP Tunnel in Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris versions snv_01 through snv_76. A local attacker can trigger a NULL pointer dereference by sending a crafted SIOCGTUNPARAM IOCTL request. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.2, indicating high severity with local access, low attack complexity, and complete impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no evidence of active exploitation in the wild, an exploit for local privilege escalation on Solaris 10 is available on ExploitDB, and there is no significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
snv_01CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:sun:opensolaris:snv_01:*:sparc:*:*:*:*:* | ||
snv_01CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:sun:opensolaris:snv_01:*:x86:*:*:*:*:* | ||
snv_02CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:sun:opensolaris:snv_02:*:sparc:*:*:*:*:* | ||
snv_02CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:sun:opensolaris:snv_02:*:x86:*:*:*:*:* | ||
snv_03CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:sun:opensolaris:snv_03:*:sparc:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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