Article 2N99N You only need 60 bytes to hose Linux's rpcbind

You only need 60 bytes to hose Linux's rpcbind

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Story ImageSigh ... people just leave it on without blocking the port world+dog knows it uses. So patch it or close it, people

A 60 byte payload sent to a UDP socket to the rpcbind service can crash its host by filling up the target's memory."

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