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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 IDCVE-2003-0252
SeverityCRITICAL
CVSS score9.8
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWECWE-193
StatusModified
Published2003-08-18
Last modified2026-04-16
DescriptionOff-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.
SourceNIST National Vulnerability Database

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