CVE-2005-4798

Upstream information

CVE-2005-4798 at MITRE

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.

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SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	5
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 153311 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

• SUSE-SA:2006:028, published Wed, 31 May 2006 18:00:00 +0000

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 03:01:53 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:14:48 2023