J-Security Center

Title: Solaris rpc.nisd Vulnerability

Severity: HIGH

Description:

Due to insufficient bounds checking in the NIS service daemon rpc.nisd, a remote user can overwrite the stack space. This could lead to crashing of the service daemon or execution of arbitrary code on the machine running the service daemon, leading to compromise of the system.

Affected Products:

  • Fujitsu UXP/V 0.0.0V10L20
  • Sun Solaris 2.3.0
  • Sun Solaris 2.4.0
  • Sun Solaris 2.4.0_x86
  • Sun Solaris 2.5.0
  • Sun Solaris 2.5.0_x86
  • Sun Solaris 2.5.1
  • Sun Solaris 2.5.1_ppc
  • Sun Solaris 2.5.1_x86
  • Sun Solaris 2.6
  • Sun Solaris 2.6_x86

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