CVE Catalog

CVE-2006-0900

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

A vulnerability in nfsd in the FreeBSD 6.0 kernel allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via a crafted NFS mount request, as demonstrated by the ProtoVer NFS test suite.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can remotely cause NFS services to become unavailable, potentially disrupting systems relying on this protocol, leading to downtime and loss of productivity.

Recommendation

It is recommended to immediately upgrade FreeBSD to a version that fixes this vulnerability or apply the appropriate security patch.

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Original NVD description (English source)

nfsd in FreeBSD 6.0 kernel allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted NFS mount request, as demonstrated by the ProtoVer NFS test suite.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS