CVE-2003-1079 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can cause denial of service via memory consumption in Solaris UDP RPC, requiring OS patches.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2003-1079?
CVE-2003-1079 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Sun Solaris, published on 8 Feb 2005. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official 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.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2003-1079?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Sun Solaris, Sun Sunos.
How do I fix CVE-2003-1079?
No fix has been published for CVE-2003-1079 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2003-1079 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2003-1079 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Sun Solaris
Sources
Also known as GHSA-jjc8-j77m-76v9.