USN-36-1: NFS statd vulnerability

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-36-1

1st December, 2004

nfs-utils vulnerability

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

  • Ubuntu 4.10

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.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 4.10:
nfs-common

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

None

References

CVE-2004-1014