Re: portmapper dangers

[proff () suburbia net (Julian Assange)]

> The dangers, according to the code changes I saw, are that the
> portmapper will accept set and unset requests from other than the local
> machine, and that it will accept set and unset requests for reserved
> ports from clients not themselves running on reserved ports.  I'm sure
> most readers of bugtraq will immediately see the dangers inherent in
> these lacks of checking.  (The code I saw counts port 2049, the default
> NFS port, as reserved even though it is not in the reserved port space.
> I suppose one could argue whether this should be done.)
>
>                                         der Mouse
>
>                             mouse () collatz mcrcim mcgill edu

Isn't this rather old hat?


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