Executive Summary

Summary
Title Sun Alert 249146 The Solaris rpc.metad(1M) Daemon is Vulnerable to a Denial of Service (DoS) Attack
Informations
Name SUN-249146 First vendor Publication 2009-01-09
Vendor Sun Last vendor Modification 2009-05-06
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 4.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Product: Solaris 9 Operating System Solaris 10 Operating System OpenSolaris

A security vulnerability in rpc.metad(1M) may allow a local or remote unprivileged user to crash rpc.metad(1M), resulting in failure of the service and causing Solaris Volume Manager (SVM) commands to fail.  This is a type of Denial-of-Service (DoS).

This issue is referenced in the following document:
CVE-2008-1480 http://www.security-database.com/detail.php?cve=CVE-2008-1480


State: Resolved
First released: 09-Jan-2009

Original Source

Url : http://blogs.sun.com/security/entry/sun_alert_249146_the_solaris

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5698
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5698
Title: The Solaris rpc.metad(1M) Daemon is Vulnerable to a Denial of Service (DoS) Attack
Description: rpc.metad in Sun Solaris 10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a malformed RPC request.
Family: unix Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2008-1480
Version: 1
Platform(s): Sun Solaris 9
Sun Solaris 10
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Os 1
Os 1

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2009-06-03 Name : Solaris Update for usr/sbin/rpc.metad 138574-01
File : nvt/gb_solaris_138574_01.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
43275 Solaris rpc.metad Malformed Traffic Remote DoS

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2009-01-19 Name : The remote host is missing Sun Security Patch number 138574-01
File : solaris9_x86_138574.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-11-20 Name : The remote host is missing Sun Security Patch number 116669-40
File : solaris9_116669.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO