A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:
Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog)
The following packages are affected:
nfs-common
The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to version 1:1.0.6-3ubuntu1.1. In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes.
Details follow:
SGI discovered a remote Denial of Service vulnerability in the NFS statd server. statd did not ignore the "SIGPIPE" signal which caused it to shutdown if a misconfigured or malicious peer terminated the TCP connection prematurely.