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FreeBSD -- NFS remote denial of service

Affected packages
8.3 <= FreeBSD < 8.3_8
9.1 <= FreeBSD < 9.1_3

Details

VuXML ID e66a6e2f-b0d5-11e2-9164-0016e6dcb562
Discovery 2013-04-21
Entry 2013-04-29
Modified 2016-08-09

Insufficient input validation in the NFS server allows an attacker to cause the underlying file system to treat a regular file as a directory.

References

CVE Name CVE-2013-3266
FreeBSD Advisory SA-13:05.nfsserver