CVE-2018-17159

Summary

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.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
FreeBSDFreeBSDFreeBSD 11.2 before 11.2-RELEASE-p5affected

Weaknesses

  • Kernel improper bounds checking

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

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