{"cve":"CVE-2005-4798","nvd":{"published":"2005-12-31T05:00:00.000","modified":"2026-06-16T22:19:28.320","status":"Modified","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.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":null,"cwes":[],"references":["http://secunia.com/advisories/20398","http://secunia.com/advisories/22082","http://secunia.com/advisories/22093","http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1183","http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1184"],"products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T19:40:09.211843075+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2005-4798","score":0.03024,"percentile":0.87465,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}