CVE-2018-17159

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Dec 4, 2018
Updated
Aug 5, 2024
Reserved
Sep 18, 2018

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Description

In FreeBSD before 11.2-STABLE(r340854) and 11.2-RELEASE-p5, the NFS server lacks a bounds check in the READDIRPLUS NFS request. Unprivileged remote users with access to the NFS server can cause a resource exhaustion by forcing the server to allocate an arbitrarily large memory allocation.

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
FreeBSDFreeBSD
  • FreeBSD 11.2 before 11.2-RELEASE-p5Affected

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