Bugtraq mailing list archives
Re: NFS exporting
From: ccdes () ccdes princeton nj us (Carl Corey)
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 1994 00:46:02 -0500
As for NFS in general, its useless. As soon as you export an NFS partition to the net (at least if you export it writable), you can kiss your machine goodbye. [...] Perry
Now, are we talking exporting writeable to everyone, or _any_ NFS exported writeable partition? Let's say that I have two machines, server.foo.com and client.foo.com server has one NFS exported volume which is for client.foo.com (diskless). showmount looks something like this: % showmount -e server.foo.com export list for server.foo.com: /export client.foo.com is this exploitable? How would it be exploited? Is there a way to keep people from exploiting it (besides not exporting it)? cc
Current thread:
- NFS exporting Scott D. Yelich (Apr 13)
- Re: NFS exporting Perry E. Metzger (Apr 13)
- Re: NFS exporting Mike Evans (Apr 13)
- Re: NFS exporting Aggelos D. Keromitis (Apr 13)
- Re: NFS exporting Perry E. Metzger (Apr 13)
- Re: NFS exporting Michael Neuman (Apr 13)
- Re: NFS exporting Perry E. Metzger (Apr 14)
- Re: NFS exporting Paul Graham (Apr 14)
- Re: NFS exporting Perry E. Metzger (Apr 15)
- Re: NFS exporting Perry E. Metzger (Apr 13)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: NFS exporting smb () research att com (Apr 13)
- Re: NFS exporting Carl Corey (Apr 13)
- Re: NFS exporting Perry E. Metzger (Apr 14)
- Re: NFS exporting Rob Quinn (Apr 14)
- Re: NFS exporting Perry E. Metzger (Apr 14)
- Re: NFS exporting Perry E. Metzger (Apr 14)
- Re: NFS exporting Aggelos D. Keromitis (Apr 14)
- Re: NFS exporting Steve Simmons (Apr 14)
- Re: NFS exporting Perry E. Metzger (Apr 14)