CVE-2008-5009: Sun Solstice x.25

Medium severity, CVSS 4.0. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Race condition in the s_xout kernel module in Sun Solstice X.25 9.2, when running on a multiple CPU machine, allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) via vectors involving reading the /dev/xty file.

Affected products

• Sun Solstice x.25: version 9.2 only

Published 2008-11-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.