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Re: Serious security flaw in rpc.mountd on several operating

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter)
Wed Aug 27 02:14:18 1997

Date: 	Mon, 25 Aug 1997 18:46:40 +0000
Reply-To: deviant@unixnet.org
From: Peter <deviant@UNIXNET.ORG>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To:  <Pine.LNX.3.96.970824065001.7193A-100000@slartibartfast.sp.org>

On Sun, 24 Aug 1997, Peter wrote:

> I'm not sure exactly what systems this vulnerability affects, but clearly
> it is a serious problem.

Since then, It has been confirmed that this hole is present on at least
some distributions/versions of Linux, Ultrix, NetBSD, OpenBSD, SunOS,
Solaris, and probably many many more.

 -- Peter
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