Gentoo alert 200307-07 (nfs-utils)

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aliz@gentoo.org (Daniel Ahlberg)
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gentoo-announce@gentoo.org
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[gentoo-announce] GLSA:  nfs-utils (200307-07)
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Sat, 19 Jul 2003 17:13:46 +0200 (CEST)

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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200307-07
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          PACKAGE : nfs-utils
          SUMMARY : off by one bug
             DATE : 2003-07-19 15:13 UTC
          EXPLOIT : remote
VERSIONS AFFECTED : <nfs-utils-1.0.4
    FIXED VERSION : >=nfs-utils-1.0.4
              CVE : CAN-2003-0252

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quote from advisory: 

"Local or remote attacker which is capable to send RPC request to
vulnerable mountd daemon could execute artitrary code or cause
denial of service."

read the full advisory at:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=105820223707191&w=2

SOLUTION

It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
net-fs/nfs-utils upgrade to nfs-utils-1.0.5 as follows

emerge sync
emerge nfs-utils
emerge clean

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