CVE-2008-4619 Denial of service in n/a

Critical 10.0 Published 20 Oct 2008 Updated 7 Aug 2024

Remote attackers can crash the rpcbind daemon in Sun Solaris 9 by sending a crafted request, causing a 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-2008-4619?

CVE-2008-4619 is a critical denial of service vulnerability in Sun Sunos, published on 20 Oct 2008. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-4619?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Sun Sunos.

How do I fix CVE-2008-4619?

No fix has been published for CVE-2008-4619 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-2008-4619 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2008-4619 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

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Sources

Also known as GHSA-fcfq-3ccf-xx7r.