CVE-2006-3468 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2006-3468 at MITRE

Description

Linux kernel 2.6.x, when using both NFS and EXT3, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (file system panic) via a crafted UDP packet with a V2 lookup procedure that specifies a bad file handle (inode number), which triggers an error and causes an exported directory to be remounted read-only.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	7.8
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Complete

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 192988 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SA:2006:057, published Thu, 28 Sep 2006 17:00:00 +0000
SUSE-SA:2006:064, published Fri, 10 Nov 2006 10:00:00 +0000
SUSE-SR:2006:021, published Fri, 01 Sep 2006 17:00:00 +0000
SUSE-SR:2006:022, published Fri, 08 Sep 2006 17:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 03:44:39 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:14:47 2025