First published: Wed Jan 10 2007(Updated: )
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.
Credit: cve@mitre.org
Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
---|---|---|
Sun SunOS | =5.8 | |
Oracle Solaris SPARC | =9.0 |
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CVE-2007-0165 is classified as a denial of service vulnerability.
To fix CVE-2007-0165, apply the relevant patches provided by the vendor for Sun Solaris 8 and 9.
CVE-2007-0165 affects Sun Solaris 8 (5.8) and Solaris 9 (9.0) systems.
CVE-2007-0165 can be exploited through malformed RPC requests that cause the rpcbind service to crash.
Yes, CVE-2007-0165 can be exploited by remote attackers.