National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-0043
Original release date:01/31/2006
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Buffer overflow in the realpath function in nfs-server rpc.mountd, as used in SUSE Linux 9.1 through 10.0, allows local users to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors involving mount requests and symlinks.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
3.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides user account access, Allows partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
- Official Statement from Red Hat (08/30/2006)
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This issue did not affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, or 4.
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External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 18638
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SA:2006:005
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: nfs-rpcmountd-realpath-bo(24347)
External Source: BID
Name: 16388
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2006-0348
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 18614
Type: Advisory
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-975
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 18889
External Source: MISC
Name: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=350020