CVE-2003-1079

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2003-02-18 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Unknown vulnerability in UDP RPC for Solaris 2.5.1 through 9 for SPARC, and 2.5.1 through 8 for x86, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via certain arguments in RPC calls that cause large amounts of memory to be allocated.

Affected products

Sun Solaris: 2.5.1, 2.6, 7.0, 8.0, 9.0
Sunos: 5.5.1, 5.7, 5.8

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/8092/
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-50626-1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6883
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1006131
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/11368
http://secunia.com/advisories/8092/
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-50626-1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6883
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1006131
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/11368

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