CVE-2008-1778

Severity

65%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

153%

Unspecified vulnerability in the floating point context switch implementation in Sun Solaris 9 and 10 on x86 platforms might allow local users to cause a denial of service (application exit), corrupt data, or trigger incorrect calculations via unknown vectors.

Unspecified vulnerability in the floating point context switch implementation in Sun Solaris 9 and 10 on x86 platforms might allow local users to cause a denial of service (application exit), corrupt data, or trigger incorrect calculations via unknown vectors.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.6. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C).

Overview

Type

Sun SunOS (Solaris

First reported 16 years ago

2008-04-14 16:05:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-30 16:25:00

Affected Software

Sun SunOS (Solaris 9) 5.9

5.9

Sun SunOS (Solaris 10) 5.10

5.10

References

29728

Vendor Advisory

233921

28733

1019833

ADV-2008-1193

sun-solaris-floatingpoint-contextswitch-dos(41765)

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:4950

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