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FreeBSD -- Unvalidated input in nfsclient

Affected packages
7.2 <= FreeBSD < 7.2_8
7.3 <= FreeBSD < 7.3_1
8.0 <= FreeBSD < 8.0_3

Details

VuXML ID 0dc91089-ca41-11df-aade-0050568f000c
Discovery 2010-05-27
Entry 2010-10-24
Modified 2016-08-09

Problem Description:

The NFS client subsystem fails to correctly validate the length of a parameter provided by the user when a filesystem is mounted.

References

FreeBSD Advisory SA-10:06.nfsclient