Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Dec 4, 2018· Updated Aug 5, 2024

CVE-2018-17159

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.

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Affected products

FreeBSD/FreeBSDllm-fuzzy2 versions
< 11.2-RELEASE-p5+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: < 11.2-RELEASE-p5
- (no CPE)range: FreeBSD 11.2 before 11.2-RELEASE-p5

Patches

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References

security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-18:13.nfs.ascmitrevendor-advisoryx_refsource_FREEBSD
www.securityfocus.com/bid/106192mitrevdb-entryx_refsource_BID
www.securitytracker.com/id/1042164mitrevdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
secuniaresearch.flexerasoftware.com/secunia_research/2018-24/mitrex_refsource_MISC

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