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CVE-2018-17159
HIGH · CVSS 7.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-12-04T15:29:00.353 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:45:27.197

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.

Affected products

freebsd — freebsd

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References

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