Bug 1617863 (CVE-2005-4798) - CVE-2005-4798 security flaw
Summary: CVE-2005-4798 security flaw
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: CVE-2005-4798
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Reported: 2018-08-16 04:53 UTC by Stephen Herr
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:54 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2018-08-16 04:53:37 UTC
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Description Stephen Herr 2018-08-16 04:53:31 UTC 
Flaw bug created to hold information about an old flaw we knew something about. For more details see the MITRE CVE description.
Comment 1 Stephen Herr 2018-08-16 16:35:05 UTC 
MITRE 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.
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