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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