CVE-2002-0391

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 58.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2002-08-12 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-190

Description

Integer overflow in xdr_array function in RPC servers for operating systems that use libc, glibc, or other code based on SunRPC including dietlibc, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by passing a large number of arguments to xdr_array through RPC services such as rpc.cmsd and dmispd.

Affected products

FreeBSD: through 4.6.1
Microsoft Windows 2000: all versions
Microsoft Windows Nt: 4.0
Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3: all versions
OpenBSD: 3.1
Sun Solaris: 2.6, 9.0
Sunos: 5.5.1, 5.7, 5.8

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/aix/2002-q4/0002.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-07/0514.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/hp/2002-q3/0077.html
http://bvlive01.iss.net/issEn/delivery/xforce/alertdetail.jsp?oid=20823
http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000515
http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000535
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=102813809232532&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=102821785316087&w=2

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