Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting nfs package, versions [,1.0.6)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
11.3% (96th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-NFS-2380322
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed10 Jan 2005
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 10 Jan 2005

CVE-2004-0946  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade nfs to version 1.0.6 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution rquotad in nfs-utils (rquota_server.c) before 1.0.6-r6 on 64-bit architectures does not properly perform an integer conversion, which leads to a stack-based buffer overflow and allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted NFS request.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1