CVE-2008-5690: Sun Opensolaris

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

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 8 only; version 9 only; version 10 only

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