cachefsd heap overflow

Added: 04/05/2006
CVE: CVE-2002-0033
BID: 4674
OSVDB: 779

Background

**cachefsd** is an RPC service which supports local caching of Network File Systems (NFS), thereby improving performance on filesystems mounted from an NFS server.

Problem

A heap overflow in **cachefsd** allows remote command execution.

Resolution

Apply the patch or workaround referenced in Sun Alert 44309.

References

<http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-11.html&gt;

Platforms

SunOS 5.6 / Solaris 2.6
SunOS 5.7 / Solaris 7