CVE-2003-1079: Sun Solaris

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Unknown vulnerability in UDP RPC for Solaris 2.5.1 through 9 for SPARC, and 2.5.1 through 8 for x86, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via certain arguments in RPC calls that cause large amounts of memory to be allocated.

Affected products

• Sun Solaris: version 2.5.1 only; version 2.6 only; version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
• Sun Sunos: affected versions not specified; version 5.5.1 only; version 5.7 only; version 5.8 only

Published 2003-02-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.