CVE-2004-1039

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Published Jan 19, 2005 CVSS 2.0 · 5.0 Medium EPSS 1.6% KEV · Not listed

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.

Affected Products

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:sco:openserver:5.0.6:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:sco:openserver:5.0.7:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:sco:unixware:7.1.1:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:sco:unixware:7.1.3:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:sco:unixware:7.1.4:::::::*

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Remediation

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2004-1037	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.

Metrics

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploit prediction score: 1.6% (1.591% probability within 30 days)

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/UnixWare/SCOSA-2005.1/SCOSA-2005.1.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/13805
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/386814
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12225

History

No history.

Subscriptions

Sco Openserver Unixware

Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

Sources

CVE record Updated: Aug 8, 2024, 12:39 AM

Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: Jan 19, 2005, 5:00 AM
Updated: Aug 8, 2024, 12:39 AM
Reserved: Nov 16, 2004, 12:00 AM

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NVD Updated: Jun 16, 2026, 10:06 PM

Status: Modified
Published: Jan 11, 2005, 5:00 AM
Modified: Jun 16, 2026, 10:06 PM

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