Published: 02/05/2013 Updated: 25/11/2013

CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 10

VMScore: 668

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

The nfsrvd_readdir function in sys/fs/nfsserver/nfs_nfsdport.c in the new NFS server in FreeBSD 8.0 up to and including 9.1-RELEASE-p3 does not verify that a READDIR request is for a directory node, which allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code by specifying a plain file instead of a directory.

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Adam Nowacki discovered that the new FreeBSD NFS implementation processes a crafted READDIR request which instructs to operate a file system on a file node as if it were a directory node, leading to a kernel crash or potentially arbitrary code execution The kfreebsd-8 kernel in the oldstable distribution (squeeze) does not enable the new NFS imple ...

CWE-20 http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-13:05.nfsserver.asc http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2672 http://secunia.com/advisories/53241 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1028491 https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.debian.org/security/./dsa-2672

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