CVE-2005-4798

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

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.

Affected products

Linux kernel: 2.4.0, 2.4.0-test1, 2.4.0-test10, 2.4.0-test11, 2.4.0-test12, 2.4.0-test2 (+63)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/20398
http://secunia.com/advisories/22082
http://secunia.com/advisories/22093
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1183
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1184
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/marcelo/linux-2.4.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=87e03738fc15dc3ea4acde3a5dcb5f84b6b6152b
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/marcelo/linux-2.4.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=87e03738fc15dc3ea4acde3a5dcb5f84b6b6152b
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006-05-31.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20186
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0509.1/1333.html
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11536
http://secunia.com/advisories/20398

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