CVE-2003-0251

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2003-07-24 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

ypserv NIS server before 2.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a TCP client request that does not respond to the server, which causes ypserv to block.

Affected products

Nis Ypserv Nis Server: through 2.7

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/21112
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016517
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=fsalert%2F55600&zone_32=category%3Asecurity
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2003:072
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-173.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-201.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/440454/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8031
http://www.turbolinux.com/security/TLSA-2003-43.txt
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2873
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A667
http://secunia.com/advisories/21112

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