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Date:      Thu, 4 Nov 1999 20:52:53 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
To:        dfoo@webct.com
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG ('freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG')
Subject:   Re: kernel messages...
Message-ID:  <199911050152.UAA22253@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <382228DF.D707327A@ca.webct.com> from Darren Foo at "Nov 4, 1999 04:46:23 pm"

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Darren Foo wrote,
> 	I keep getting this message repeatedly:
> Nov  1 09:49:46 mail mountd[133]: umountall request from 209.87.17.10
> from unpri
> vileged port
> Nov  1 13:46:31 mail mountd[133]: umountall request from 209.87.17.10
> from unpri
> vileged port
> 
> 	Could this be a security issue? We are running NFS and NIS openly.

There very well could be a security problem in there somewhere. I
finally got around to submitting a PR about this today. See PR
bin/14709, "umountall requests possibly mishandled by mountd(8)."
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@home.com


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