VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2009-5153

CVSS score9.8 CRITICAL
EPSS probability6.12%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2018-11-21
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

In Novell NetWare before 6.5 SP8, a stack buffer overflow in processing of CALLIT RPC calls in the NFS Portmapper daemon in PKERNEL.NLM allowed remote unauthenticated attackers to execute code, because a length field was incorrectly trusted.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-119: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

Primary references