CVE-2008-4619 in the critical feed json
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…
published 2008-10-20 18 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2008-4599
- cvss
- 10.0
- version 2.0, NVD
- cisa kev
- Not listed
- not in CISA's catalog
- epss
- 12.0%
- EPSS 12.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
- public exploits
- 1
- Exploit-DB
Summary
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.
Vendor advisories
What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.
red hat product security vex CVE-2008-4619 updated
libtirpc: rpcbind DoS in the taddr2uaddr XDR_DECODE
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Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat productsnot affected: vulnerable code not present
Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf
Timeline
- First public exploit (EDB-6775)
- Published
Exploit prediction
11.99% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).
Exploits and checks
- EDB-6775 Solaris 9 PortBind - XDR-DECODE 'taddr2uaddr()' Remote Denial of Service dos, 2008-10-17
CVSS scores
| assigned by | version | score | vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVD | 2.0 | 10.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
References
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exploit-db.com
/exploits/6775
exploit
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sunsolve.sun.com
/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-200412-1
vendor-advisory
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redhat.com
/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00819.html
vendor-advisory
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secunia.com
/advisories/32475
third-party-advisory, vendor-advisory
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vupen.com
/english/advisories/2008/2945
vdb-entry
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openwall.com
/lists/oss-security/2008/10/29/1
mailing-list
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securityreason.com
/securityalert/4440
third-party-advisory
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openwall.com
/lists/oss-security/2008/10/31/2
mailing-list
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openwall.com
/lists/oss-security/2008/10/28/2
mailing-list
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exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
/vulnerabilities/46057
vdb-entry
Sources
- CVE List CVE-2008-4619
- NVD CVE-2008-4619
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