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…

published May 9, 2006

CVSS
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EPSS
3%
Percentile
87.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.02954 · 87.0th percentile
Published
2006-05-09T20:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 09 MAY 20:00Z
    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…
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