CVE-2006-0043

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-01-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

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.

Affected products

Suse Linux: 1.0, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.0

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=350020
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Jan/0007.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/18614
http://secunia.com/advisories/18638
http://secunia.com/advisories/18889
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-975
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16388
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0348
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24347
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=350020
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Jan/0007.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/18614

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