CVE-2008-4619 EXPLOIT
10.0
HIGH · CVSS 2.0 · EPSS 12% (pctl 96)
Patch early
A public exploit exists.
Description
The RPC subsystem in Sun Solaris 9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a crafted request to procedure 8 in program 100000 (rpcbind), related to the XDR_DECODE operation and the taddr2uaddr function. NOTE: this might be a duplicate of CVE-2007-0165.
Scoring
| CVSS | 10.0 (HIGH, v2.0) |
|---|---|
| Vector | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
| EPSS | 11.99% — more likely to be exploited than 96% of all CVEs |
| On CISA KEV | no |
| Public exploit | yes |
| Published | 2008-10-21 |
| Last modified | 2026-06-16 |
Affected (1)
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| sun | sunos |
Public exploits
| Source | Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
| exploit-db | Solaris 9 PortBind - XDR-DECODE 'taddr2uaddr()' Remote Denial of Service | 2008-10-17 |
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32475
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4440
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-200412-1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/28/2
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/29/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/31/2
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2945
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46057
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6775
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00819.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32475
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4440
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-200412-1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/28/2
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/29/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/31/2
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2945
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46057
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6775
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00819.html
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