CVE-2018-17159

7.5 highEPSS 4.2%

High (7.5) in freebsd freebsd. EPSS 4.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

7.5 high

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS: 4.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 90% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-400
Published: 2018-12-04
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

freebsd:freebsd

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106192
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042164
https://secuniaresearch.flexerasoftware.com/secunia_research/2018-24/
https://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-18:13.nfs.asc
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106192

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