REDHAT-BUG-716949

First published: Mon Jun 27 2011(Updated: )

A security flaw was found in the way nfs-utils performed authentication of an incoming request, when an IP based authentication mechanism was used and certain file systems were exported to either to a netgroup or a wildcard (e.g. *.my.domain), and some file systems (either the same or different to the first set) were exported to specific hosts, IP addresses, or a subnet. A remote attacker, able to create global DNS entries could use this flaw to access above listed, exported file systems. References: [1] <a href="https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701702">https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701702</a> [2] <a href="http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/27/7">http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/27/7</a> (CVE Request) Relevant upstream patch: [3] <a href="http://marc.info/?l=linux-nfs&amp;m=130875695821953&amp;w=2">http://marc.info/?l=linux-nfs&amp;m=130875695821953&amp;w=2</a>

Never miss a vulnerability like this again

Sign up to SecAlerts for real-time vulnerability data matched to your software, aggregated from hundreds of sources.

Read MoreStart Free Trial

• agent/references
• agent/type
• agent/first-publish-date
• agent/last-modified-date
• collector/redhat-bugzilla
• source/Red Hat
• alias/CVE-2011-2500
• agent/severity
• agent/event
• agent/description
• agent/trending
• agent/source
• agent/softwarecombine
• agent/tags
• agent/guess-ai
• agent/software-canonical-lookup
• agent/software-canonical-lookup-request
• vendor/nfs
• canonical/nfs utils