CVE-2009-5153
9.8
CRITICAL · CVSS 3.0 · EPSS 6.1% (pctl 93)
In your normal cycle
Critical by CVSS (9.8), but no sign of active exploitation.
Description
In Novell NetWare before 6.5 SP8, a stack buffer overflow in processing of CALLIT RPC calls in the NFS Portmapper daemon in PKERNEL.NLM allowed remote unauthenticated attackers to execute code, because a length field was incorrectly trusted.
Scoring
| CVSS | 9.8 (CRITICAL, v3.0) |
|---|---|
| Vector | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| EPSS | 6.12% — more likely to be exploited than 93% of all CVEs |
| Weakness | CWE-119 |
| On CISA KEV | no |
| Public exploit | none known |
| Published | 2018-11-21 |
| Last modified | 2026-06-16 |
Affected (1)
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| microfocus | netware |
References
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515804
- https://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=1z3z-OsVCiE~
- https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-09-067/
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515804
- https://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=1z3z-OsVCiE~
- https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-09-067/
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