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CVE-2002-0830

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2002-08-12 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

• FreeBSD: through 4.6.1

References

• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=102865517214722&w=2
• http://www.info.apple.com/usen/security/security_updates.html
• http://www.osvdb.org/5072
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5402
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/9772
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=102865517214722&w=2
• http://www.info.apple.com/usen/security/security_updates.html
• http://www.osvdb.org/5072
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5402
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/9772

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