CVE-2008-3666: Sun Opensolaris

High severity, CVSS 7.1. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Unspecified vulnerability in Sun Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris before snv_96 allows (1) context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (panic) via vectors involving creation of a crafted file and use of the sendfilev system call, as demonstrated by a file served by an Apache 2.2.x web server with EnableSendFile configured; and (2) local users to cause a denial of service (panic) via a call to the sendfile system call, as reachable through the sendfilev library.

Affected products

• Sun Opensolaris: up to and including snv_95; version snv_01 only; version snv_02 only; version snv_03 only; version snv_04 only; version snv_05 only; …
• Sun Solaris: version 10 only
• Sun Sunos: version 5.10 only

Published 2008-08-13. Last modified 2026-06-16.