Sun Solaris 8 Directory Functions Local Denial of Service Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	28069
Class:	Unknown
CVE:	CVE-2008-1115
Remote:	No
Local:	Yes
Published:	Feb 12 2008 12:00AM
Updated:	May 07 2015 05:32PM
Credit:	The vendor disclosed this issue.
Vulnerable:	Sun Solaris 8_x86 Sun Solaris 8_sparc
Not Vulnerable:

Sun Solaris 8 Directory Functions Local Denial of Service Vulnerability

Sun Solaris is prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability.

A local unprivileged attacker can exploit this issue to cause a system crash on an affected computer, resulting in denial-of-service conditions.

This issue affects Solaris 8 for SPARC and x86 architectures.

Sun Solaris 8 Directory Functions Local Denial of Service Vulnerability

An attacker will use standard system commands to exploit this issue.

Sun Solaris 8 Directory Functions Local Denial of Service Vulnerability

Solution:
Sun has released patches and an advisory to address this issue. Please see the references for more information.


Sun Solaris 8_sparc

• Sun 117350-53
  http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-117350-53-1


• Sun 117351-53
  http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-117351-53-1

Sun Solaris 8 Directory Functions Local Denial of Service Vulnerability

References:

• Solaris Homepage (Sun Microsystems)
  
• 200163 - Security Vulnerability in Solaris 8 Directory Functions (Sun Microsystems)