VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2018-17159

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability4.21%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2018-12-04
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Primary references