CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-2500
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-02-15
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
The 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.
Affected configurations
• linux-nfs nfs-utils (<= 1.2.3)
• linux-nfs nfs-utils 1.2.0
• linux-nfs nfs-utils 1.2.1
• linux-nfs nfs-utils 1.2.2
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://marc.info/?l=linux-nfs&m=130875695821953&w=2 marc.info
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1534.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/nfs/files/nfs-utils/1.2.4/ sourceforge.net
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/nfs/files/nfs-utils/1.2.4/Changelog-nfs-utils-1.2.4/download sourceforge.net
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=716949 bugzilla.redhat.com
- http://marc.info/?l=linux-nfs&m=130875695821953&w=2 marc.info
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1534.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/nfs/files/nfs-utils/1.2.4/ sourceforge.net
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/nfs/files/nfs-utils/1.2.4/Changelog-nfs-utils-1.2.4/download sourceforge.net
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=716949 bugzilla.redhat.com