CVE-2006-0803 describes a vulnerability in the YaST Online Update (YOU) script handling in Novell and SUSE Linux, where its signature verification mechanism using gpg 1.4.x was flawed, failing to properly detect malicious scripts. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.0) allows for potential integrity compromise (I:P) due to the lack of proper signature validation, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this decade-old flaw.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
10.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:novell:suse_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
9.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:suse:suse_linux:9.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
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No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.