CVE-2008-5690 Denial of service in n/a
Local attackers can cause authentication denial of service in Sun Solaris Kerberos due to incorrect cache file permissions and credential storage flaws.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2008-5690?
CVE-2008-5690 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in Sun Opensolaris, published on 19 Dec 2008. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The Kerberos credential renewal feature in Sun Solaris 8, 9, and 10, and OpenSolaris build snv_01 through snv_104, allows local users to cause a denial of service (authentication failure) via unspecified vectors related to incorrect cache file permissions, and lack of credential storage by the store_cred function in pam_krb5.
Weakness: CWE-255
Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-5690?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Sun Opensolaris, Sun Solaris.
How do I fix CVE-2008-5690?
No fix has been published for CVE-2008-5690 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2008-5690 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-5690 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Sun Opensolaris
Sources
Also known as GHSA-2pwm-376p-g82r.