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

[deviant () unixnet org (Peter)]

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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