1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-36-1

USN-36-1: NFS statd vulnerability

Publication date

1 December 2004

Overview

NFS statd vulnerability

Releases

Details

SGI discovered a remote Denial of Service vulnerability in the NFS
statd server. statd did not ignore the “SIGPIPE” signal which caused
it to shutdown if a misconfigured or malicious peer terminated the TCP
connection prematurely.

SGI discovered a remote Denial of Service vulnerability in the NFS
statd server. statd did not ignore the “SIGPIPE” signal which caused
it to shutdown if a misconfigured or malicious peer terminated the TCP
connection prematurely.

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
4.10 warty nfs-common – 

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