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OpenBSD Portmap Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
Information
Severity
Severity
Medium
Family
Family
Denial of Service
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
5.0
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
11 years ago
Modified
Modified
5 years ago
Summary
This host is running portmap and is prone to denial of service vulnerability.
Insight
Insight
The flaw is due to an error when handling multiple RPC requests and can be exploited to crash the portmap daemon via specially crafted packets sent to TCP port 111.
Affected Software
Affected Software
OpenBSD version 5.2 and prior
Solution
Solution
Apply the patch provided by the vendor.