portmaper/process table flood exploit?

[lordvadr () POBOX COM (C.J. Oster)]

Aleph, my apologies if this has already been posted.  I did a quick search
and didn't find anything.

Early this morning my machine crashed because of a ypserv flood on
portmap.  I'm not sure exactly what happened because of my lack of
familiarity with nis and portmap.  Here's the logs.

May  2 04:02:16 localhost portmap[1556]: connect from 130.126.85.3 to
callit(ypserv): request from unauthorized host
May  2 04:02:28 localhost portmap[1557]: connect from 130.126.85.3 to
callit(ypserv): request from unauthorized host
May  2 04:03:13 localhost portmap[1559]: connect from 130.126.85.3 to
callit(ypserv): request from unauthorized host
May  2 04:03:17 bh-ridgway portmap[1560]: connect from 130.126.85.3 to callit(ypserv): request from unauthorized host
.
.
.
.
May  2 05:00:57 localhost portmap[1943]: connect from 130.126.85.3 to
callit(ypserv): request from unauthorized host
May  2 05:01:07 loralhost portmap[1946]: connect from 130.126.85.3 to
callit(ypserv): request from unauthorized host
May  2 05:01:19 localhost portmap[1947]: connect from 130.126.85.3 to
callit(ypserv): request from unauthorized host

254 of them, then bang, dead.  I'm assuming it's a process table flood or
something of the sort.  Or perhapse a portmap exploit that I'm not aware
of.  I run 2.2.5, dual pentium 200mmx, and the offending machine is
another linux machine running the 2.1 or the 2.2 kernel (at least that's
what queso says).  Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

-CJO-


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