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Date:      Tue, 23 Nov 2004 23:43:46 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>
To:        Phil Brennan <phil.brennan@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bin/61084: nfsd sometimes exits prematurely during port-scan
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1041123234310.98085F-100000@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <ff0f76e0041122162065f5ddf@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Phil Brennan wrote:

> The fix for this has not been committed to RELENG_5_2. 
> src/usr.sbin/nfsd/nfsd.c is still at 1.28, when it should be 1.29.  This
> is very unfortunate, as it allows a denial of service simply by running
> nmap against the box. Could this be committed to this branch also, as
> there are quite a lot of people still running 5.2.1.  Thanks. ( Just got
> bitten by this today )  Regards,

I'll put in a request to the re@ team to get this merged ASAP.  Thanks for
the pointer, and sorry about not having merged it there previously!

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert@fledge.watson.org      Principal Research Scientist, McAfee Research




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