Articles with tag: Nfsclient
POSTED BY: Patroklos Argyroudis / 23.05.2010

FreeBSD kernel NFS client local vulnerabilities

CENSUS ID:CENSUS-2010-0001
CVE ID:CVE-2010-2020
Affected Products:FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE, 7.3-RELEASE, 7.2-RELEASE
Class:Improper Input Validation (CWE-20)
Remote:No
Discovered by:Patroklos Argyroudis

We have discovered two improper input validation vulnerabilities in the FreeBSD kernel’s NFS client-side implementation (FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE, 7.3-RELEASE and 7.2-RELEASE) that allow local unprivileged users to escalate their privileges, or to crash the system by performing a denial of service attack.