Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 00:47:17 +0000 From: Phil Brennan <phil.brennan@gmail.com> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/61084: nfsd sometimes exits prematurely during port-scan Message-ID: <ff0f76e00411231647669802d1@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1041123234310.98085F-100000@fledge.watson.org> References: <ff0f76e0041122162065f5ddf@mail.gmail.com> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1041123234310.98085F-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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Its a university networking society machine, so it wasn't the end of the world ( no money was lost :) ). Gonna try and use it as an example of how to trace a problem in our admin training. Thanks again. On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 23:43:46 +0000 (GMT), Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> wrote: > 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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