| VID |
17002 |
| Severity |
40 |
| Port |
111 |
| Protocol |
TCP,UDP |
| Class |
RPC |
| Detailed Description |
The RPC etherstatd service is running. The etherstatd service puts a specified Ethernet interface into promiscuous mode and provides traffic statistics to remote programs. This program registers itself with the RPC portmapper as program 100010. |
| Recommendation |
Disable the 'etherstatd' rpc service if it's not needed, or use it after asking to the vendor whether not to be vulnerable.
Solaris 10, Solaris 11, Enterprise Linux 6.4, CentOS 6.4, Fedora 19:
1. you become a root, and then stop the service like the following:
# rpcinfo -d [program num] [version num]
2. comment its entry by putting a # at the beginning of the line with 'etherstatd' in /etc/rpc
3. # pkill -HUP (x)inetd |
| Related URL |
CVE-1999-0530 (CVE) |
| Related URL |
(SecurityFocus) |
| Related URL |
(ISS) |
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