CVE-2003-1079

Description

Unknown vulnerability in UDP RPC for Solaris 2.5.1 through 9 for SPARC, and 2.5.1 through 8 for x86, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via certain arguments in RPC calls that cause large amounts of memory to be allocated.

5.0

CVSS

Severity: Medium

CVSS 2.0 •

EPSS 1.11% Top 25%

Vendor Advisory sun.com Vendor Advisory secunia.com

Affected: n/a n/a

References

Link	Tags
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/11368	vdb entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1006131	vdb entry
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6883	vdb entry
http://secunia.com/advisories/8092/	patch vendor advisory third party advisory
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-50626-1	patch vendor advisory

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2003-1079?: CVE-2003-1079 has been scored as a medium severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2003-1079?: To fix CVE-2003-1079, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2003-1079 being actively exploited in the wild?: It is possible that CVE-2003-1079 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~1% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.

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