Ubuntu 4.10 : nfs-utils vulnerability (USN-36-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 20652

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

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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Solution

Update the affected nfs-common, nfs-kernel-server and / or nhfsstone packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 20652

File Name: ubuntu_USN-36-1.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks

Published: 1/15/2006

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nfs-common, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:4.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nfs-kernel-server, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nhfsstone

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 12/1/2004

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-1014

USN: 36-1

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