CVE-2002-0391
Integer overflow in xdr_array function in RPC servers for operating systems that use libc, glibc, or other code based on SunRPC including dietlibc, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by passing a large number of arguments to xdr_array through RPC services such as rpc.cmsd and dmispd.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 9.8 (v3.1)
- Severity
- CRITICAL
- CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-190
- EPSS score
- 58.1% (99th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2002-0388)
- Published
- August 12, 2002
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2002-0388 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on January 16, 2025.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- freebsd / freebsd
- microsoft / windows 2000
- microsoft / windows nt
- microsoft / windows xp
- openbsd / openbsd
- sun / solaris
- sun / solaris
- sun / sunos
- sun / sunos
- sun / sunos
Certified products that may be affected
4 FIPS 140 or Common Criteria certified products, from automated matching by sec-certs.org.
- Windows XP Enhanced Cryptographic Provider (RSAENH) - Microsoft Corporation - FIPS 140 989 - historical
- Windows XP Enhanced DSS and Diffie-Hellman Cryptographic Provider (DSSENH) - Microsoft Corporation - FIPS 140 990 - historical
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP2 including R2, Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, x64, and Itanium Editions; Windows XP Professional SP2 and x64 SP2; Windows XP Embedded SP2 - Microsoft Corporation - Common Criteria CCEVS-VR-VID-10184-2008 - archived
- Microsoft Windows 2003 and Microsoft Windows XP - Microsoft Corporation - Common Criteria CCEVS-VR-0131-2005 - archived
References
- ftp://ftp.caldera.com/pub/security/OpenLinux/CSSA-2002-055.0.txt(Broken Link)
- ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2002-011.txt.asc(Broken Link)
- ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20020801-01-A(Broken Link)
- ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20020801-01-P(Broken Link)
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/aix/2002-q4/0002.html(Broken Link)
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-07/0514.html(Broken Link)
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/hp/2002-q3/0077.html(Broken Link)
- http://bvlive01.iss.net/issEn/delivery/xforce/alertdetail.jsp?oid=20823(Broken Link, Vendor Advisory)
- http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000515(Broken Link)
- http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000535(Broken Link)
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=102813809232532&w=2(Exploit, Mailing List)
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=102821785316087&w=2(Exploit, Mailing List)
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=102821928418261&w=2(Exploit, Mailing List)
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=102831443208382&w=2(Exploit, Mailing List)
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103158632831416&w=2(Mailing List)
- http://online.securityfocus.com/advisories/4402(Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/285740(Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2002-166.html(Broken Link)
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2002-172.html(Broken Link)
- http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-25.html(Patch, Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource)
- http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-142(Broken Link)
- http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-143(Broken Link)
- http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-146(Broken Link)
- http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-149(Broken Link)
- http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-333(Broken Link)
- http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9170.php(Broken Link)
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/192995(Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource)
- http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/other_advisory-2399.html(Broken Link)
- http://www.mandrakesoft.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2002:057(Broken Link)
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2002-167.html(Broken Link)
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2002-173.html(Broken Link)
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-168.html(Broken Link)
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-212.html(Broken Link)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5356(Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2002/ms02-057(Third Party Advisory)
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A42(Broken Link)
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A4728(Broken Link)
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9(Broken Link)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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