Bug 191300 - CVE-2005-4798 nfs client: handle long symlinks properly
Summary: CVE-2005-4798 nfs client: handle long symlinks properly
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kernel
Version: 2.1
Hardware: ia64
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Don Howard
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Keywords: Security
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-05-10 16:48 UTC by Marcel Holtmann
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:06 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2006-05-12 18:00:45 UTC

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Description Marcel Holtmann 2006-05-10 16:48:15 UTC 
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 via a long symlink.

More detailed description can be found in bug 169230.
Comment 1 Don Howard 2006-05-12 18:00:45 UTC 
It looks like rhel2 gets this right:


        strlen = (u32*)res->buffer;
        /* Convert length of symlink */
        len = ntohl(*strlen);
        if (len > res->bufsiz - 5)
                len = res->bufsiz - 5;
        *strlen = len;
        /* NULL terminate the string we got */
        string = (char *)(strlen + 1);
        string[len] = 0;

(nfs2/3 on pensacola and derry are all similar)
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