CVE-2002-0830: Freebsd

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 Freebsd: up to and including 4.6.1

Published 2002-08-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.