CVE-2004-1039 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can cause denial of service via memory exhaustion in SCO UnixWare NFS mountd when run from inetd.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2004-1039?
CVE-2004-1039 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Sco Openserver, published on 19 Jan 2005. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The NFS mountd service on SCO UnixWare 7.1.1, 7.1.3, 7.1.4, and 7.0.1, and possibly other versions, when run from inetd, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion) via a series of requests, which causes inetd to launch a separate process for each request.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2004-1039?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Sco Openserver, Sco Unixware.
How do I fix CVE-2004-1039?
No fix has been published for CVE-2004-1039 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-2004-1039 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2004-1039 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Sco Openserver
- CVE-2000-0306 Memory corruption in n/a
- CVE-2006-0072 Buffer overflow in termsh on SCO OpenServer 5.0.7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long -o command line argument.
- CVE-2004-0390 Auth bypass in n/a
- CVE-1999-1450 Privilege escalation in n/a
- CVE-2001-0579 Memory corruption in n/a
Sources
Also known as GHSA-4g77-24fr-j3qq.