CVE-2003-0252: Linux-Nfs Nfs-Utils

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 15.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Off-by-one error in the xlog function of mountd in the Linux NFS utils package (nfs-utils) before 1.0.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via certain RPC requests to mountd that do not contain newlines.

Affected products

• Linux-Nfs Nfs-Utils: before 1.0.4 (fixed in 1.0.4)

Published 2003-08-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.