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CVE-2018-17159
Published: Dec 4, 2018
Modified: Aug 5, 2024
PUBLISHED
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.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
FreeBSD | FreeBSD | affected FreeBSD 11.2 before 11.2-RELEASE-p5 |
References
106192
vdb-entry
x_refsource_BID
FreeBSD-SA-18:13
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_FREEBSD
1042164
vdb-entry
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