CVEvulnerability

CVE-2013-3266

7.5 HIGH Published 2013-05-02 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2013-05-02
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

The nfsrvd_readdir function in sys/fs/nfsserver/nfs_nfsdport.c in the new NFS server in FreeBSD 8.0 through 9.1-RELEASE-p3 does not verify that a READDIR request is for a directory node, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code by specifying a plain file instead of a directory.

Affected configurations

• freebsd freebsd 8.0 • freebsd freebsd 8.1 • freebsd freebsd 8.2 • freebsd freebsd 8.3 • freebsd freebsd 9.0 • freebsd freebsd 9.1

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References