CVE-2009-4075: Sun Opensolaris

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Unspecified vulnerability in the timeout mechanism in sshd in Sun Solaris 10, and OpenSolaris snv_99 through snv_123, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon outage) via unknown vectors that trigger a "dangling sshd authentication thread."

Affected products

• Sun Opensolaris: version snv_99 only; version snv_100 only; version snv_101 only; version snv_102 only; version snv_103 only; version snv_104 only; …
• Sun Solaris: version 10 only

Published 2009-11-25. Last modified 2026-06-16.