0009093: Update NfsClient to fix NetExec's NFS protocol

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0009093	Kali Linux	Tool Upgrade Request	public	2025-03-03 18:56	2025-03-05 03:29

Reporter	NeffIsBack	Assigned To	arnaudr
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	have not tried
Status	resolved	Resolution	fixed

Summary	0009093: Update NfsClient to fix NetExec's NFS protocol
Description	Since Python 3.13 removed xdrlib, the NfsClient is broken in the current state. As NetExec's NFS protocol relies on the NfsClient it is also broken. Therefore, we patched the NfsClient to contain the xdrlib package itself and thus, the package needs to be updated in Kali in order to fix NetExec. @arszilla told my, that usually a version bump is automatically picked up by the kali cli, but this seems like it is not the case. Any idea what the issue might be (to be fixed for future bumps)? Github Repo: https://github.com/Pennyw0rth/NfsClient NetExec Issue: https://github.com/Pennyw0rth/NetExec/issues/578 NetExec PR Fixing the GitHub version: https://github.com/Pennyw0rth/NetExec/pull/571

arnaudr 2025-03-05 03:09 manager ~0020337	Hello, I just uploaded latest nfsclient to kali-dev (will take a few hours before it reaches the mirrors). usually a version bump is automatically picked up by the kali cli We have a tool to notify us when a new release is available, but then we still need to update the package in Kali manually, as time allows. When a fix is urgent like this one, don't hesitate to ping on the bugtracker as you just did.

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2025-03-03 18:56	NeffIsBack	New Issue
2025-03-05 03:09	arnaudr	Note Added: 0020337
2025-03-05 03:29	arnaudr	Assigned To	=> arnaudr
2025-03-05 03:29	arnaudr	Status	new => assigned
2025-03-05 03:29	arnaudr	Status	assigned => resolved
2025-03-05 03:29	arnaudr	Resolution	open => fixed