openSUSE 10 Security Update : gnome-screensaver (gnome-screensaver-5172)

An attacker could log in without a valid password if the NIS server is down. CVE-2008-0887 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from openSUSE Security Update gnome-screensaver-5172. The text description of this...

SuSE 10 Security Update : gnome-screensaver (ZYPP Patch Number 5179)

An attacker could log in without a valid password if the NIS server is down. CVE-2008-0887 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if description scriptid33251;...

openSUSE 10 Security Update : gnome-screensaver (gnome-screensaver-5175)

An attacker could log in without a valid password if the NIS server is down. CVE-2008-0887 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from openSUSE Security Update gnome-screensaver-5175. The text description of this...

CVE-2006-3664

Unspecified vulnerability in NIS server on Sun Solaris 8, 9, and 10 allows local and remote attackers to cause a denial of service ypserv hang via unknown vectors...

CVE-2006-3664

Unspecified vulnerability in NIS server on Sun Solaris 8, 9, and 10 allows local and remote attackers to cause a denial of service ypserv hang via unknown vectors...

CVE-2006-3664

CVE-2006-3664 is an unspecified DoS vulnerability in the Solaris NIS (ypserv) service affecting Sun Solaris 8–10 (various SPARC/x86 platforms). The NVD notes a MEDIUM severity (base score 5.0) with network access and no authentication required, causing a ypserv hang via unknown vectors. Patches e...

CVE-2006-3664: Undefined Security Weakness

Unspecified vulnerability in NIS server on Sun Solaris 8, 9, and 10 allows local and remote attackers to cause a denial of service ypserv hang via unknown vectors...

CVE-2003-0251

ypserv NIS server before 2.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a TCP client request that does not respond to the server, which causes ypserv to block...

CVE-2003-0251

ypserv NIS server before 2.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a TCP client request that does not respond to the server, which causes ypserv to block...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: : : : Updated ypserv packages fix various vulnerabilities

Updated ypserv packages which fix a denial of service DoS vulnerability and a memory leak are now available for Red Hat Linux on IBM iSeries and pSeries systems. The ypserv package contains the Network Information Service NIS server. For ypserv versions before 2.5 it was discovered that a memory...

CVE-2003-0251

ypserv NIS server before 2.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a TCP client request that does not respond to the server, which causes ypserv to block...

CVE-2003-0251

ypserv NIS server before 2.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a TCP client request that does not respond to the server, which causes ypserv to block...

CVE-2003-0251

The vulnerability CVE-2003-0251 affects ypserv (NIS server) prior to version 2.7. A remote attacker can trigger a denial-of-service by sending a TCP client request that the server does not respond to, causing ypserv to block and fail to service other clients. Publicly documented fixes indicate th...

CVE-2003-0251: Undefined Security Weakness

ypserv NIS server before 2.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a TCP client request that does not respond to the server, which causes ypserv to block...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: ypserv security update

Updated ypserv packages fixing a denial of service vulnerability are now available. The ypserv package contains the Network Information Service NIS server. A vulnerability has been discovered in the ypserv NIS server prior to version 2.7. If a malicious client queries ypserv via TCP and...

[SECURITY] New version of nis released

Package : nis Problem type : local exploit Debian-specific: no The version of nis as distributed in Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 and 2.2 contains an ypbind package with a security problem. ypbind is used to request information from a nis server which is then used by the local machine. The logging code in...

CVE-1999-0795

The NIS+ rpc.nisd server allows remote attackers to execute certain RPC calls without authentication to obtain system information, disable logging, or modify caches...

NIS Server Detection

The remote host is an NIS Network Information Service server. NIS is used to share usernames, passwords, and other sensitive information among the hosts claiming to be within a given NIS domain and passes this information over the network unencrypted. C Tenable Network Security, Inc...