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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: freebsd

Published: 2018-12-04T15:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T10:39:59.559Z

Reserved: 2018-09-18T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2018-17159

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2018-12-04T15:29:00.353

Modified: 2018-12-31T16:45:40.850

Link: CVE-2018-17159

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