# 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.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.0 (`AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 19 Jan 2005
- **Updated:** 8 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-4g77-24fr-j3qq

## 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: 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.

## 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](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2000-0306/): Memory corruption in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2006-0072](https://insights.sbomify.com/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. (high 7.5)
- [CVE-2004-0390](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2004-0390/): Auth bypass in n/a (high 7.5)
- [CVE-1999-1450](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-1999-1450/): Privilege escalation in n/a (high 7.5)
- [CVE-2001-0579](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2001-0579/): Memory corruption in n/a (high 7.5)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2004-1039 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: 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.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2004-1039 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Sco Openserver. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2004-1039/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2004-1039/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2004-1039
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2004-1039
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2004-1039

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2004-1039/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.