CVE-2002-0830 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can cause a denial of service in FreeBSD and NetBSD NFS servers by sending RPC messages with zero-length payloads, leading to infinite loops.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2002-0830?
CVE-2002-0830 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Freebsd Freebsd, published on 2 Apr 2003. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Network File System (NFS) in FreeBSD 4.6.1 RELEASE-p7 and earlier, NetBSD 1.5.3 and earlier, and possibly other operating systems, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (hang) via an RPC message with a zero length payload, which causes NFS to reference a previous payload and enter an infinite loop.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2002-0830?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Freebsd Freebsd.
How do I fix CVE-2002-0830?
No fix has been published for CVE-2002-0830 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2002-0830 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2002-0830 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Freebsd Freebsd
Sources
Also known as GHSA-c42h-m4fp-v446.