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

> Remote attackers can crash the rpcbind daemon in Sun Solaris 9 by sending a crafted request, causing a denial of service.

- **Severity:** Critical 10.0 (`AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 20 Oct 2008
- **Updated:** 7 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-fcfq-3ccf-xx7r

## 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: 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.

## 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:

- Solaris 9 PortBind - XDR-DECODE 'taddr2uaddr()' Remote Denial of Service (exploitdb)

## Other vulnerabilities in Sun Sunos

- [CVE-2010-4435](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2010-4435/): Memory corruption in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2008-2144](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-2144/): Other in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2008-1369](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-1369/): Misconfiguration in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2001-1583](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2001-1583/): Command injection in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2001-0269](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2001-0269/): Auth bypass in n/a (critical 10.0)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2008-4619 and fix it if it is affected.

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

Affected product: Sun Sunos. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-4619/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-4619/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-4619
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-4619
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-4619

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