CVE-2008-4552 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2008-4552 at MITRE

Description

The good_client function in nfs-utils 1.0.9, and possibly other versions before 1.1.3, invokes the hosts_ctl function with the wrong order of arguments, which causes TCP Wrappers to ignore netgroups and allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	7.5
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 435150 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SR:2009:001, published Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 06:32:43 2013
CVE page last modified: Sat Feb 15 15:10:21 2025