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Slackware: 202304-14 Severe: Nfs-Mount Remote Service Disruption

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Calendar Grey July 19, 2003
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Warning regarding a critical vulnerability in Gentoo's nfs-utils that could allow remote RPC requests to trigger a denial of service.
Local or remote attacker which is capable to send RPC request tovulnerable mountd daemon could execute artitrary code or causedenial of service.

Summary


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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200307-07
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quote from advisory:
"Local or remote attacker which is capable to send RPC request to vulnerable mountd daemon could execute artitrary code or cause denial of service."
read the full advisory at: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=105820223707191&w=2
SOLUTION
It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running net-fs/nfs-utils upgrade to nfs-utils-1.0.5 as follows
emerge sync emerge nfs-utils emerge clean
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PACKAGE : nfs-utils
SUMMARY : off by one bug
DATE : 2003-07-19 15:13 UTC
EXPLOIT : remote
VERSIONS AFFECTED : =nfs-utils-1.0.4
CVE : CAN-2003-0252

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