Executive Summary

Summary
Title NFS statd vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-36-1 First vendor Publication 2004-12-01
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2004-12-01
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:

Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog)

The following packages are affected:

nfs-common

The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to version 1:1.0.6-3ubuntu1.1. In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes.

Details follow:

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.

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-36-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10899
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10899
Title: statd in nfs-utils 1.257 and earlier does not ignore the SIGPIPE signal, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (server process crash) via a TCP connection that is prematurely terminated.
Description: statd in nfs-utils 1.257 and earlier does not ignore the SIGPIPE signal, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (server process crash) via a TCP connection that is prematurely terminated.
Family: unix Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2004-1014
 Version: 5
Platform(s): Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
CentOS Linux 3
 Product(s):
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1
Os 12
Os 6
Os 2
Os 3
Os 1

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2008-09-24 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200412-08 (nfs-utils)
File : nvt/glsa_200412_08.nasl
2008-01-17 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 606-1 (nfs-utils)
File : nvt/deb_606_1.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
12240 nfs-utils rpc.statd SIGPIPE TCP Connection DoS

nfs-utils rpc.statd contains a flaw that may allow a remote denial of service. The issue is triggered when a TCP connection is closed early, and will result in a loss of availability.

Snort® IPS/IDS

Date Description
2019-09-10 nfs-utils TCP connection termination denial-of-service attempt
RuleID : 50913 - Revision : 1 - Type : SERVER-OTHER

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2006-01-15 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-36-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2005-01-13 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.
File : redhat-RHSA-2005-014.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2004-12-21 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.
File : redhat-RHSA-2004-583.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2004-12-14 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-200412-08.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2004-12-08 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-606.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2004-12-07 Name : The remote Mandrake Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandrake_MDKSA-2004-146.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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