CVE-2018-17159

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Summary

CVECVE-2018-17159
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-12-04 15:29:00 UTC
Updated2018-12-31 16:45:00 UTC
DescriptionIn 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-400

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd All All All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 11.2 p5 All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd All All All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 11.2 p5 All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
FreeBSD-SA-18:13 FREEBSD security.freebsd.org Third Party Advisory
FreeBSD Network File System Multiple Security Vulnerabilities BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Secunia Advisories MISC secuniaresearch.flexerasoftware.com Third Party Advisory
FreeBSD NFS Server Code Flaws Let Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code - SecurityTracker SECTRACK www.securitytracker.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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