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Gentoo: GLSA-200412-08 High: nfs-utils Remote Code Issue

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Various remote security flaws in nfs-utils have the potential to trigger Denial of Service or allow code execution on Gentoo platforms.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in nfs-utils that could lead to a Denial of Service, or the execution of arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200412-08 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: nfs-utils: Multiple remote vulnerabilities Date: December 14, 2004 Bugs: #72113 ID: 200412-08

Synopsis ======= Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in nfs-utils that could lead to a Denial of Service, or the execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= nfs-utils is a package containing the client and daemon implementations for the NFS protocol.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-fs/nfs-utils < 1.0.6-r6 >= 1.0.6-r6
========== Arjan van de Ven has discovered a buffer overflow on 64-bit architectures in 'rquota_server.c' of nfs-utils (C...

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