CVE-2008-4619 describes a critical denial-of-service vulnerability in the RPC subsystem of Sun Solaris 9. An unauthenticated remote attacker can crash the rpcbind daemon by sending a specially crafted request to procedure 8, leveraging an issue in the XDR_DECODE operation and taddr2uaddr function. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 10.0, indicating maximum severity with network-based attacks, low complexity, and complete impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not listed in CISA KEV, public exploit code exists on ExploitDB, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this decade-old flaw.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
5.9CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:sun:sunos:5.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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