CVE-2008-1778 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Complete

Availability Impact Complete

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00051.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Sun Subscribe	Sunos Subscribe

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:sun:sunos:5.9:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:sun:sunos:5.10:::::::*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2008-1778	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.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
http://secunia.com/advisories/29728
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-233921-1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28733
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019833
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1193/references
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41765
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A4950

History

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Projects

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2008-04-14T16:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T08:32:01.248Z

Reserved: 2008-04-14T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2008-1778

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2008-04-14T16:05:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Link: CVE-2008-1778

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

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