CVE-2011-2500

Summary

CVECVE-2011-2500
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2014-02-15 14:57:00 UTC
Updated2014-03-06 04:30:00 UTC
DescriptionThe host_reliable_addrinfo function in support/export/hostname.c in nfs-utils before 1.2.4 does not properly use DNS to verify access to NFS exports, which allows remote attackers to mount filesystems by establishing crafted DNS A and PTR records.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-264

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Linux-nfs Nfs-utils 1.2.0 All All All
Application Linux-nfs Nfs-utils 1.2.1 All All All
Application Linux-nfs Nfs-utils 1.2.2 All All All
Application Linux-nfs Nfs-utils 1.2.0 All All All
Application Linux-nfs Nfs-utils 1.2.1 All All All
Application Linux-nfs Nfs-utils 1.2.2 All All All
Application Linux-nfs Nfs-utils All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
'[PATCH] nfs: fix host_reliable_addrinfo (try #2)' - MARC MLIST marc.info
716949 – (CVE-2011-2500) CVE-2011-2500 nfs-utils: Improper authentication of an incoming request when an IP based authentication used CONFIRM bugzilla.redhat.com
Download NFS from SourceForge.net CONFIRM sourceforge.net
access.redhat.com REDHAT rhn.redhat.com
NFS - Browse /nfs-utils/1.2.4 at SourceForge.net CONFIRM sourceforge.net
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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