CVE-2008-4619

Public Exploit

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.

10.0

CVSS

Severity: Critical

CVSS 2.0 •

EPSS 8.93% Top 10%

Vendor Advisory sun.com Vendor Advisory redhat.com Vendor Advisory secunia.com

Affected: n/a n/a

References

Link	Tags
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2945	vdb entry
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/29/1	mailing list
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4440	third party advisory
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6775	exploit
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/31/2	mailing list
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/28/2	mailing list
http://secunia.com/advisories/32475	third party advisory vendor advisory
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-200412-1	vendor advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46057	vdb entry
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00819.html	vendor advisory

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2008-4619?: CVE-2008-4619 has been scored as a critical severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2008-4619?: To fix CVE-2008-4619, 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-2008-4619 being actively exploited in the wild?: It is possible that CVE-2008-4619 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~9% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.

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