CVE-2005-4798

CVE-2005-4798 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

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