CVE-1999-0168: Undefined Security Weakness

The portmapper may act as a proxy and redirect service requests from an attacker, making the request appear to come from the local host, possibly bypassing authentication that would otherwise have taken place. For example, NFS file systems could be mounted through the portmapper despite export...

CVE-1999-0166: Undefined Security Weakness

NFS allows users to use a "cd .." command to access other directories besides the exported file system...

CVE-1999-0002: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

Buffer overflow in NFS mountd gives root access to remote attackers, mostly in Linux systems...

CVE-1999-0167: Undefined Security Weakness

In SunOS, NFS file handles could be guessed, giving unauthorized access to the exported file system...

CVE-1999-0084: Improper Privilege Management

Certain NFS servers allow users to use mknod to gain privileges by creating a writable kmem device and setting the UID to 0...

CVE-1999-0211

CVE-1999-0211 is tied to NFS export handling where extra long export lists (over 256 characters) in mount daemons enable unauthenticated mounting of NFS directories. Public sources (Red Hat security page, CVE lists, Nessus plugin) describe that an attacker could mount exported shares, with Nessus...

CVE-1999-0170: Undefined Security Weakness

Remote attackers can mount an NFS file system in Ultrix or OSF, even if it is denied on the access list...

CVE-1999-0211: Undefined Security Weakness

Extra long export lists over 256 characters in some mount daemons allows NFS directories to be mounted by anyone...

FreeBSD_DoS.txt

Resending once, since it's been 10.5 days... Here's an interesting denial-of-service attack against FreeBSD =3.0 systems. It abuses a flaw in the new' FreeBSD vfscache.c; it has no way to purge entries unless the vnode' e.g. the file they point to is removed from memory -- which generally doesn't...

CVE-1999-1564

FreeBSD 3.2 and possibly other versions allows a local user to cause a denial of service panic with a large number accesses of an NFS v3 mounted directory from a large number of processes...

netstation.navio.comm-rte.txt

Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 21:43:51 PST From: Ryan McRonald To: [email protected] Subject: TROJAN: netstation.navio-comm.rte 1.1.0.1 While configuring some IBM Network Station 300s I noticed that my /tmp directory had become NFS exported and world read/writeable!! I traced this to one of the...

Sun Solaris 2.5.1 - rpc.statd rpc Call Relaying

// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/450/info The rpc service rpc.statd, shipped with all major versions of Sun's solaris, is the status monitoring service for NFS file locking. The vulnerability lies in rpc.statd's ability to relay rpc calls to other rpc services without being validated ...

Sun Solaris 2.5.1 - rpc.statd rpc Call Relaying

Sun Solaris 2.5.1 - rpc.statd rpc Call Relaying // source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/450/info The rpc service rpc.statd, shipped with all major versions of Sun's solaris, is the status monitoring service for NFS file locking. The vulnerability lies in rpc.statd's ability to relay rpc call...

CVE-1999-1546

netstation.navio-com.rte 1.1.0.1 configuration script for Navio NC on IBM AIX exports /tmp over NFS as world-readable and world-writable...

CVE-1999-0548

A superfluous NFS server is running, but it is not importing or exporting any file systems...

CVE-1999-0554

NFS exports system-critical data to the world, e.g. / or a password file...

CVE-1999-0002

Buffer overflow in NFS mountd gives root access to remote attackers, mostly in Linux systems...

[SECURITY] New versions of netstd fixes root exploit in rpc.mountd

Description ----------- The Program rpc.mountd is a mount daemon that handles NFS mounts. The version as shipped with current distributions of Linux contains a buffer overflow. Impact ------ The overflow can be used as part of an attack to gain root access on the machine acting NFS server. We...

RedHat Linux 5.1 / Caldera OpenLinux Standard 1.2 - Mountd

// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/121/info NFS servers running certain implementations of mountd, primarily Linux systems. On some systems, the vulnerable NFS server is enabled by default. This vulnerability can be exploited even if the NFS server does not share any file systems. This...

RedHat Linux 5.1 Caldera OpenLinux Standard 1.2 - Mountd

RedHat Linux 5.1 Caldera OpenLinux Standard 1.2 - Mountd // source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/121/info NFS servers running certain implementations of mountd, primarily Linux systems. On some systems, the vulnerable NFS server is enabled by default. This vulnerability can be exploited even...