CVE-2005-4798: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: version 2.4.0 only; version 2.4.1 only; version 2.4.2 only; version 2.4.3 only; version 2.4.10 only; version 2.4.11 only; …

Published 2005-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.