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CVE-2009-5153

CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8 EPSS 6.12%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2018-11-21 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a critical severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 9.8. It may be remotely exploitable. Exploitation may require the attacker to be authenticated.

CVE
CVE-2009-5153
Severity
CRITICAL
CVSS
9.8
EPSS
6.12%

Original NVD 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.

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