Description
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.
References
- 13805 third-party-advisory
- 20050111 [NILESA-20050101]: Denial of Service vulnerability due to the mountd bug mailing-list
- 12225 vdb-entry