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Bug ID 6661313
Synopsis mountd does not deal well with malformed authentication requests from NFS server kernel
State 10-Fix Delivered (Fix available in build)
Category:Subcategory kernel:nfs
Keywords rtiq_reviewed
Responsible Engineer Robert Gordon
Reported Against
Duplicate Of
Introduced In solaris_nevada
Commit to Fix snv_98
Fixed In snv_98
Release Fixed solaris_nevada(snv_98) , solaris_10u8(s10u8_07) (Bug ID:2180289)
Related Bugs 6417056 , 6523693 , 6839714
Submit Date 10-February-2008
Last Update Date 14-December-2009
Description 
The mountd is called upon to authenticate client requests
against the specifications provided in the shares.  When the
NFS server kernel upcalls are malformed in providing the
address information of the client, the mountd will segv.
This has the effect of hanging client mounts or access
in general to the NFS server.  Undesireable behavior
in the least.
Work Around 
N/A
Comments 
N/A