cve-2018-17159
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-12-04 15:00
Modified
2024-08-05 10:39
Severity ?
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.
Impacted products
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