CVE-2005-4798 Information

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.

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/20398 http://secunia.com/advisories/22082 http://secunia.com/advisories/22093 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1183 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1184 http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/marcelo/linux-2.4.git;a=commit;h=87e03738fc15dc3ea4acde3a5dcb5f84b6b6152b http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/marcelo/linux-2.4.git;a=commitdiff;h=87e03738fc15dc3ea4acde3a5dcb5f84b6b6152b http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006-05-31.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20186 http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0509.1/1333.html https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A11536