CVE-2018-17159 Vulnerability Details

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CVE-2018-17159 Metadata Quick Info

CVE Published: 04/12/2018 | CVE Updated: 05/08/2024 | CVE Year: 2018
Source: freebsd | Vendor: FreeBSD | Product: FreeBSD
Status : PUBLISHED

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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.

Metrics

CVSS Version: 3.1 | Base Score: n/a
Vector: n/a

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Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

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CWE Name: Kernel improper bounds checking
Source: FreeBSD

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Source: NVD (National Vulnerability Database).