CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-17159

7.5 HIGH Published 2018-12-04 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-12-04
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-400

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.

Affected configurations

• freebsd freebsd (< 11.2) • freebsd freebsd 11.2

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness

References