Security Advisory
CVE-2018-17159
7.5
HIGH
Vulnerability 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.
Published Date
December 4, 2018
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory