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.
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.
Exploit-DB 1
- Solaris 9 PortBind - XDR-DECODE 'taddr2uaddr()' Remote Denial of Service EDB-6775 · dos · Oct 17, 2008 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- ADV-2008-2945 vdb-entry
- [oss-security] 20081029 Re: CVE-2008-4619 / milw0rm6775 mailing-list
- 4440 third-party-advisory
- 6775 exploit
- [oss-security] 20081031 Re: CVE-2008-4619 / milw0rm6775 mailing-list
- [oss-security] 20081028 CVE-2008-4619 / milw0rm6775 mailing-list
- 32475 third-party-advisory
- 200412 vendor-advisory
- sunsolaris-rpc-dos(46057) vdb-entry
- FEDORA-2008-9204 vendor-advisory