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Fedora Core Ext3 File System Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA22776
Release Date: 2006-11-13
Last Update: 2006-11-24
Popularity: 7,115 views

Critical:
Not critical
Impact: DoS
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Unpatched

OS:Fedora Core 6

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-6053


Description:
LMH has reported a vulnerability in Fedora Core, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service)

The vulnerability is caused due to an improper handling of corrupted data structures in the Ext3 file system. This can be exploited to crash the system or corrupt the file system by mounting and reading a specially crafted file system image.

Solution:
Do not mount untrusted file systems.

Provided and/or discovered by:
LMH

Changelog:
2006-11-24: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-10-11-2006.html


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