Is Red Hat Enterprise Linux affected by the bug fixed by RHSA-2000:043-03/CVE-2000-0666?

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Issue

  • Is NFS in Red Hat Enterprise Linux affected by the bug fixed by RHSA-2000:043-03/CVE-2000-0666?
  • Is Red Hat Enterprise Linux vulnerable to CVE-2000-0666: rpc.statd in the nfs-utils package in various Linux distributions does not properly cleanse untrusted format strings, which allows remote attackers to gain root privileges.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • Vulnerability: CVE-2000-0666 in 'rpc.statd' in the nfs-utils package
  • RHSA-2000:043-03
  • nfs-utils package

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