CVE-2004-1039 - Malthusian Propeller

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.

Reference

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