CVE-2003-0176 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2003-0176?

CVE-2003-0176 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Sgi Irix, published on 18 Aug 2003. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The Name Service Daemon (nsd), when running on an NIS master on SGI IRIX 6.5.x through 6.5.20f, and possibly earlier versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a UDP port scan.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2003-0176?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Sgi Irix.

How do I fix CVE-2003-0176?

No fix has been published for CVE-2003-0176 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2003-0176 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2003-0176 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Sgi Irix

• CVE-2002-1584 Privilege escalation in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2004-0139 Other in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2003-0575 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2003-0473 Privilege escalation in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2002-0359 Auth bypass in n/a Critical 10.0

All Sgi Irix vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-7p34-48rw-wvgp.