Denial of Service Vulnerability in SCO UnixWare's NFS Mountd Service

CVE-2004-1039 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

The NFS mountd service on SCO UnixWare 7.1.1, 7.1.3, 7.1.4, and 7.0.1, and possibly other versions, when run from inetd, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion) via a series of requests, which causes inetd to launch a separate process for each request.

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