# CVE-2008-4619: 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

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 on Exploit-DB
- Published: 2008-10-20 · Updated: 2024-08-07

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## 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.

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## References

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

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