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USN-36-1: NFS statd vulnerability

1 December 2004

NFS statd vulnerability

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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.

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 4.10
  • nfs-common -

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

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