CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-7203

4.0 MEDIUM Published 2007-05-14 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2007-05-14
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.0 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Description

The compat_sys_mount function in fs/compat.c in Linux kernel 2.6.20 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and oops) by mounting a smbfs file system in compatibility mode ("mount -t smbfs").

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (<= 2.6.20)

References