CVE-2007-5462 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can crash mountd and local users can crash automountd in Sun Solaris RPC services, causing denial of service.
- 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-2007-5462?
CVE-2007-5462 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Sun Solaris, published on 15 Oct 2007. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Unspecified vulnerability in the Sun Solaris RPC services library (librpcsvc) on Solaris 8 through 10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (mountd crash) via unspecified packets to a server that exports many filesystems, and allows local users to cause a denial of service (automountd crash) via unspecified requests to mount filesystems from a server that exports many filesystems.
Weakness: CWE-20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2007-5462?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Sun Solaris.
How do I fix CVE-2007-5462?
No fix has been published for CVE-2007-5462 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-2007-5462 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2007-5462 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Sun Solaris
Sources
Also known as GHSA-pgcx-m2j5-mvjj.