CVE-2009-0923 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can cause denial of service in Solaris Kerberos Incremental Propagation by disrupting requests to slave KDC servers.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2009-0923?
CVE-2009-0923 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Sun Opensolaris, published on 17 Mar 2009. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Unspecified vulnerability in Kerberos Incremental Propagation in Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris snv_01 through snv_110 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (loss of incremental propagation requests to slave KDC servers) via unknown vectors related to the master Key Distribution Center (KDC) server.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2009-0923?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Sun Opensolaris, Sun Solaris.
How do I fix CVE-2009-0923?
No fix has been published for CVE-2009-0923 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-2009-0923 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2009-0923 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Sun Opensolaris
Sources
Also known as GHSA-92hf-cqpg-w65p.