CVE-2005-4798 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2005-4798?

CVE-2005-4798 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 9 May 2006. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2005-4798?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2005-4798?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2005-4798 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2005-4798 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-r7wx-4mj5-7j6j.