CVE-2009-0268: Sun Opensolaris

Medium severity, CVSS 4.9. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Race condition in the pseudo-terminal (aka pty) driver module in Sun Solaris 8 through 10, and OpenSolaris before snv_103, allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) via unspecified vectors related to lack of "properly sequenced code" in ptc and ptsl.

Affected products

• Sun Opensolaris: up to and including snv_102; version snv_01 only; version snv_02 only; version snv_03 only; version snv_04 only; version snv_05 only; …
• Sun Solaris: version 8 only; version 9 only; version 10 only

Published 2009-01-26. Last modified 2026-06-16.