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medium 5.0

CVE-2005-4798 json

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…

published 2005-12-31 20 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2005-4791

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.0%
EPSS 3.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 87%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • kernel RHEL 3 2.4.21-40.EL
  • kernel-smp RHEL 3 2.4.21-40.EL
  • kernel-BOOT RHEL 3 2.4.21-40.EL
  • kernel-source RHEL 3 2.4.21-40.EL
  • kernel-hugemem RHEL 3 2.4.21-40.EL
  • kernel-unsupported RHEL 3 2.4.21-40.EL
  • kernel-smp-unsupported RHEL 3 2.4.21-40.EL
  • kernel-hugemem-unsupported RHEL 3 2.4.21-40.EL

red hat advisories RHSA-2006:0144

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2005-4798 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Desktop version 3 kernel 2.4.21-40.EL, kernel-smp 2.4.21-40.EL, kernel-BOOT 2.4.21-40.EL, kernel-source 2.4.21-40.EL, kernel-hugemem 2.4.21-40.EL, kernel-unsupported 2.4.21-40.EL, +2 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 kernel 2.4.21-40.EL, kernel-smp 2.4.21-40.EL, kernel-BOOT 2.4.21-40.EL, kernel-source 2.4.21-40.EL, kernel-hugemem 2.4.21-40.EL, kernel-unsupported 2.4.21-40.EL, +2 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 kernel 2.4.21-40.EL, kernel-smp 2.4.21-40.EL, kernel-BOOT 2.4.21-40.EL, kernel-source 2.4.21-40.EL, kernel-hugemem 2.4.21-40.EL, kernel-unsupported 2.4.21-40.EL, +2 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 kernel 2.4.21-40.EL, kernel-smp 2.4.21-40.EL, kernel-BOOT 2.4.21-40.EL, kernel-source 2.4.21-40.EL, kernel-hugemem 2.4.21-40.EL, kernel-unsupported 2.4.21-40.EL, +2 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2006:0144

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Exploit prediction

3.02% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 87% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

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