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CVE-2006-0043
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…
- 4.6MediumCVSS base score
- 0.50%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 56% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 42 days later
· 42 days later
Published
- 19 years later
· 19 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.6 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.50% · top 56% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.6.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References9
- ADV-2006-0348 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- SUSE-SA:2006:005 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 18614 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 18638 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- DSA-975 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 16388 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=350020 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 18889 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- nfs-rpcmountd-realpath-bo(24347) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2006-0051 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2006-0043)Record last updated .