CVE-2005-4798

Buffer overflow in NFS readlink handling in the Linux Kernel 2.4 up to 2.4.31 allows remote NFS servers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long symlink, which is not properly handled in (1) nfs2xdr.c or (2) nfs3xdr.c and causes a crash in the NFS client.

Score
CVSS 2.0 5.0 Medium
Status
Modified - cve@mitre.org
Published
2005-12-31
Last modified
2024-08-08

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