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CVE-2005-4798 PUBLISHED CVSS 5 MEDIUM

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.

EPSS 0.89% · 75.4th percentile

Risk Scores

CVSS v2.0
5
EPSS Score
0.89%
75.4th percentile

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
n/an/an/a
linuxlinux_kernel2.4.0, 2.4.0, 2.4.0

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