ypupdated service

Article ID: 10243

Last updated: 27 Jan, 2009

Posted: 22 Jan, 2009
by: Tech Pubs S.

Updated: 27 Jan, 2009
by: Tech Pubs S.

ypupdated service

This script is Copyright (C) 1999 Renaud Deraison


Family	RPC
Plugin ID	10243
Bugtraq ID
CVE ID	CVE-1999-0208

Description:
The ypupdated RPC service is running. Some implementation of this daemon allow a remote user to execute arbitrary shell commands as root. * No security hole regarding this program have been tested, so * this might be a false positive Solution : We suggest that you disable this service. Risk factor : High

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