CVE-2005-4798

MediumCVSS 5.0/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 5.0/10AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
Dec 31, 2005
Last modified
Jun 16, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2005-4798: Medium severity, CVSS 5.0 | Vulnix