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Bugtraq archives for 2nd quarter (Apr-Jun) 1994: Re: NFS exporting

Re: NFS exporting

Rob Quinn (rjqphys.ksu.edu)
Thu, 14 Apr 1994 10:46:01 -0500 (CDT) 

>People can read and write your disk. In addition, anyone with access
>to your network can spoof NFS packets and either interfere with your
>view of whats on the disk or with the server's idea of what you are
>attempting to write (or read). The latter portion should be obvious --
>its easy to mount an active attack on a udp based protocol

 A while back I saw some discussion about NFS using tcp instead of udp. Would
this make things any more secure?

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