CVE-2007-0165

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 9.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-01-10 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in libnsl in Sun Solaris 8 and 9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via malformed RPC requests that trigger a crash in rpcbind.

Affected products

Sun Solaris: 9.0
Sunos: 5.8

References

http://osvdb.org/31576
http://secunia.com/advisories/23700
http://secunia.com/advisories/24056
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017492
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102713-1
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-036.htm
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21964
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0110
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31366
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A2210
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5920
http://osvdb.org/31576

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