Vulnerability CVE-2024-6759


Published: 2024-08-12

Description:
When mounting a remote filesystem using NFS, the kernel did not sanitize remotely provided filenames for the path separator character, "/". This allows readdir(3) and related functions to return filesystem entries with names containing additional path components.

The lack of validation described above gives rise to a confused deputy problem. For example, a program copying files from an NFS mount could be tricked into copying from outside the intended source directory, and/or to a location outside the intended destination directory.

 References:
https://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-24:07.nfsclient.asc

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