SGI discovered a remote Denial of Service vulnerability in the NFS statd server. statd did not ignore the “SIGPIPE” signal which caused it to shutdown if a misconfigured or malicious peer terminated the TCP connection prematurely.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
1 December 2004
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
SGI discovered a remote Denial of Service vulnerability in the NFS statd server. statd did not ignore the “SIGPIPE” signal which caused it to shutdown if a misconfigured or malicious peer terminated the TCP connection prematurely.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
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