CVE-2003-0252 — CRITICAL severity vulnerability (Off-by-one error in the xlog function of mountd in the Linux)
Off-by-one error in the xlog function of mountd in the Linux NFS utils package (nfs-utils) before 1.0.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via certain RPC requests to mountd that do not contain newlines.
| CVE ID | CVE-2003-0252 |
|---|---|
| Severity | CRITICAL |
| CVSS score | 9.8 |
| CVSS vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| CWE | CWE-193 |
| Status | Modified |
| Published | 2003-08-18 |
| Last modified | 2026-04-16 |
| Description | Off-by-one error in the xlog function of mountd in the Linux NFS utils package (nfs-utils) before 1.0.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via certain RPC requests to mountd that do not contain newlines. |
| Source | NIST National Vulnerability Database |
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