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CVE-2005-4798

Published: May 9, 2006

Modified: Aug 8, 2024

PUBLISHED

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_DEBIAN

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11536

vdb-entry

signature

x_refsource_OVAL

third-party-advisory

x_refsource_SECUNIA

SUSE-SA:2006:028

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_SUSE

vdb-entry

x_refsource_BID

http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/marcelo/linux-2.4.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=87e03738fc15dc3ea4acde3a5dcb5f84b6b6152b

x_refsource_CONFIRM

[linux-kernel] 20050912 [PATCH] nfs client, kernel 2.4.31: readlink result overflow

mailing-list

x_refsource_MLIST

third-party-advisory

x_refsource_SECUNIA

http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/marcelo/linux-2.4.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=87e03738fc15dc3ea4acde3a5dcb5f84b6b6152b

x_refsource_CONFIRM

third-party-advisory

x_refsource_SECUNIA

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_DEBIAN

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