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Multiple Vendor Linux Mountd Vulnerability

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Multiple Vendor Linux Mountd Vulnerability

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
10/12/1998
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/01/2004
Modified
12/04/2013

Description

NFS servers running certain implementations of mountd, primarily Linux systems. On some systems, the vulnerable NFS server is enabled by default. This vulnerability can be exploited even if the NFS server does not share any file systems.

This vulnerability is specifically a buffer overflow in the mount daemons logging code which is supposed to log unauthorized mount attempts.

Solution(s)

  • nfs-mountd-0001

References

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