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Debian: DSA 606-1 Moderate: nfs-utils Rpc.Statd Denial Of Service

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Calendar Grey December 8, 2004
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Ubuntu addresses rpc.mountd vulnerability; upgrade nfs-common package to mitigate remote signal management flaw.
SGI has discovered that rpc.statd from the nfs-utils package, the Network Status Monitor, did not ignore the "SIGPIPE"

Summary


For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your nfs-utils package.


Upgrade Instructions
--------------------wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.


Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody
-------------------------------- Source archives:

Size/MD5 checksum: 547 3130d22c0276d04624c6f2d1a11c8303
Size/MD5 checksum: 241106 1ad532739493eb1e75a8398b34d1ad7d

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 52842 015c232faf3cee96a5c3a54678c59977
Size/MD5 checksum: 79518 b4f4190c36fef9a93a2082bffd0e4d84
Size/MD5 ch...

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--------------------------------------------------------------------------Package: nfs-utils
CVE ID: CAN-2004-1014

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