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.
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