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Vigil@nce: Solaris, denial of service of NIS
June 2009 by Vigil@nce
An attacker located on a NIS client can create a denial of service on the NIS+ server.
Severity: 2/4
Consequences: denial of service of service
Provenance: intranet client
Means of attack: no proof of concept, no attack
Ability of attacker: expert (4/4)
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5)
Diffusion of the vulnerable configuration: high (3/3)
Creation date: 10/06/2009
IMPACTED PRODUCTS
OpenSolaris
Sun Solaris
Sun Trusted Solaris
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The rpc.nisd daemon implements the NIS+ service.
An attacker located on a NIS client can create a denial of service on the NIS+ server. Then, other clients cannot use the service.
Technical details are unknown.
CHARACTERISTICS
Identifiers: 256748, 6466160, BID-35276, CVE-2009-2029, VIGILANCE-VUL-8791
http://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Solaris-denial-of-service-of-NIS-8791
