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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200307-04
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          PACKAGE : ypserv
          SUMMARY : denial of service
             DATE : 2003-07-11 14:27 UTC
          EXPLOIT : remote
VERSIONS AFFECTED : <ypserv-2.8
    FIXED VERSION : >=ypserv-2.8
              CVE : CAN-2003-0251

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quote from CVE:

"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."

SOLUTION

It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
net-nds/ypserv upgrade to ypserv-2.8 as follows

emerge sync
emerge ypserv
emerge clean

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