CVE-2005-4798 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2005-4798
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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.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: SUSE http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006-05-31.html SAID Secunia Advisory: SA20398 Secunia Advisory: SA22082 Secunia Advisory: SA22093 MLIST http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0509.1/1333.html DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1184 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1183 CONFIRM http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/marcelo/linux-2.4.git;a=commitdiff;h=87e03738fc15dc3ea4acde3a5dcb5f84b6b6152b http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/marcelo/linux-2.4.git;a=commit;h=87e03738fc15dc3ea4acde3a5dcb5f84b6b6152b BID 20186

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