Bug 97847

Summary: CAN-2003-0252 nfs-utils remote DoS
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 Reporter: Mark J. Cox <mjc>
Component: nfs-utilsAssignee: Steve Dickson <steved>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Ben Levenson <benl>
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Description Mark J. Cox 2003-06-23 07:32:57 UTC
Janusz Niewiadomski found a buffer overflow bug in nfs-utils version 1.0.3
and earlier. This bug could be exploited by an attacker to cause a remote
Denial of Service (crash). It is not believed that this bug could lead to
remote arbitrary code execution. 

example:

mount somehost:`perl -e 'for($i=0;$i<1000;$i++){print "A";}'` /mnt

This is RHSA-2003:207, erratum in process.

Comment 1 Mark J. Cox 2003-07-04 14:15:01 UTC
Public on Jul14

Comment 2 Mark J. Cox 2003-07-14 16:08:38 UTC
An errata has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. 
This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen 
this bug report if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003-207.html


Comment 3 Mark J. Cox 2003-07-14 16:13:36 UTC
Co-ordinated release date Jul14 at 12ET