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nfs-utils — security advisory
Off-by-one error in the xlog function of mountd in the Linux NFS utils package (nfs-utils) before 1.0.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via certain RPC requests to mountd that do not contain newlines.
- Products
- nfs-utils
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 1:1.0.3-2
- CVEs
- CVE-2003-0252
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 20:21 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Off-by-one error in the xlog function of mountd in the Linux NFS utils package (nfs-utils) before 1.0.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via certain RPC requests to mountd that do not contain newlines.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2003-0252
nfs-utils
Fixed versions: 1:1.0.3-2
nfs-utils
Fixed versions: 1:1.0.3-2
nfs-utils
Fixed versions: 1:1.0.3-2
Complete source record
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 410938,
"published_at": "2003-08-18T04:00:00+00:00"
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