CVE-2006-6057

Publication date 22 November 2006

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

The Linux kernel 2.6.x up to 2.6.18, and possibly other versions, on Fedora Core 6 and possibly other operating systems, allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed gfs2 file stream that triggers a NULL pointer dereference in the init_journal function.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
linux-source-2.6.15	7.04 feisty	Not in release
	6.10 edgy	Not in release
	6.06 LTS dapper	Not affected
linux-source-2.6.17	7.04 feisty	Not in release
	6.10 edgy	Fixed 2.6.17.1-12.40
	6.06 LTS dapper	Not in release

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References

MITRE
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-416-1
Linux kernel vulnerabilities
10 February 2007

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-6057