CVE-2008-5689: Sun Opensolaris

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

tun in IP Tunnel in Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris snv_01 through snv_76 allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted SIOCGTUNPARAM IOCTL request, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference.

Affected products

• Sun Opensolaris: version snv_01 only; version snv_02 only; version snv_03 only; version snv_04 only; version snv_05 only; version snv_06 only; …
• Sun Solaris: version 10.0 only

Published 2008-12-19. Last modified 2026-06-16.