CVE-2009-5153 is a critical stack buffer overflow vulnerability affecting Novell NetWare versions prior to 6.5 SP8, specifically within the NFS Portmapper daemon's handling of CALLIT RPC calls. This flaw allows remote, unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code due to an incorrectly trusted length field. With a CVSS score of 9.8, it presents a high-impact threat to confidentiality, integrity, and availability, requiring no user interaction or complex attack conditions. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 6.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microfocus:netware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microfocus:netware:6.5:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microfocus:netware:6.5:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microfocus:netware:6.5:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microfocus:netware:6.5:sp4:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.