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CVE-2009-5153 Details

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST: [email protected]CVSS-B:9.8 CRITICALVector:CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL	Source(s)	Tag(s)
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515804	CVE	Permissions RequiredThird Party Advisory
https://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=1z3z-OsVCiE~	CVE	Vendor Advisory
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-09-067/	CVE	Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515804	[email protected]	Permissions RequiredThird Party Advisory
https://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=1z3z-OsVCiE~	[email protected]	Vendor Advisory
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-09-067/	[email protected]	Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry

see all 6 references

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID	CWE Name	Source
CWE-119	Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer	[email protected]

Affected Products

Product	Versions
microfocus netware	<= 6.5 6.5 sp1 6.5 sp2 6.5 sp3 6.5 sp4
CPE cpe:2.3:a:microfocus:netware:::::::: cpe:2.3:a:microfocus:netware:6.5:sp1:::::: cpe:2.3:a:microfocus:netware:6.5:sp2:::::: cpe:2.3:a:microfocus:netware:6.5:sp3:::::: cpe:2.3:a:microfocus:netware:6.5:sp4:::::: cpe:2.3:a:microfocus:netware:6.5:sp5:::::: cpe:2.3:a:microfocus:netware:6.5:sp6:::::: cpe:2.3:a:microfocus:netware:6.5:sp7:::::: Remediation No remediation found in references.

Product

Versions

microfocus netware

<= 6.5

6.5 sp1

6.5 sp2

6.5 sp3

6.5 sp4

CPE

cpe:2.3:a:microfocus:netware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microfocus:netware:6.5:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microfocus:netware:6.5:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microfocus:netware:6.5:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microfocus:netware:6.5:sp4:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microfocus:netware:6.5:sp5:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microfocus:netware:6.5:sp6:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microfocus:netware:6.5:sp7:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

No remediation found in references.

Change History

4 change records found show changes

Date	Action	Recorded By
Jun 16, 2026	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Nov 21, 2024	CVE Modified	CVE
May 14, 2024	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Dec 20, 2018	Initial Analysis	[email protected]