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FKIE_CVE-2009-5153

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2018-11-21 15:29 - Updated: 2026-06-16 23:15
Summary
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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  "lastModified": "2026-06-16T23:15:10.813",
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