CVE-1999-1225

Concretely, CVE-1999-1225 affects rpc.mountd and is described in SGI IRIX advisories as allowing a remote tester to probe for the existence of files by issuing mount requests, leading to distinguishable error messages. The SGI advisory fixes this by patching/upgrading IRIX (upgrade to IRIX 6.5.23...

CVE-1999-1225

rpc.mountd on Linux, Ultrix, and possibly other operating systems, allows remote attackers to determine the existence of a file on the server by attempting to mount that file, which generates different error messages depending on whether the file exists or not...