Executive Summary

Summary
Title Sun Alert 244866 A Security Vulnerability in the Management of Solaris Kerberos (see kerberos(5)) may Lead to a User Denial of Service (DoS) Attack
Informations
Name SUN-244866 First vendor Publication 2008-12-11
Vendor Sun Last vendor Modification 2008-12-11
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 2.1 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 3.9 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Product: Solaris 8 Operating System Solaris 9 Operating System Solaris 10 Operating System OpenSolaris

A security vulnerability in the management of Solaris Kerberos (see kerberos(5)) credential renewal may allow a local unprivileged user to prevent other users from authenticating to the Kerberos server. This is a type of Denial of Service (DoS).

State: Resolved
First released: 11-Dec-2008

Original Source

Url : http://blogs.sun.com/security/entry/sun_alert_244866_a_security

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-255 Credentials Management

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5792
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5792
Title: A Security Vulnerability in the Management of Solaris Kerberos (see kerberos(5)) may Lead to a User Denial of Service (DoS) Attack
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.
Family: unix Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2008-5690
Version: 1
Platform(s): Sun Solaris 8
Sun Solaris 9
Sun Solaris 10
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Os 204
Os 6

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
50926 Solaris Kerberos Credential Renewal Feature Unspecified Cache File Handling L...

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2004-07-12 Name : The remote host is missing Sun Security Patch number 112908-38
File : solaris9_112908.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2004-07-12 Name : The remote host is missing Sun Security Patch number 115168-24
File : solaris9_x86_115168.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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