CVE-2006-6056 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2006-6056
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Description: Linux kernel 2.6.x up to 2.6.18 and possibly other versions, when SELinux hooks are enabled, allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed file stream that triggers a NULL pointer dereference in the superblock_doinit function, as demonstrated using an HFS filesystem image.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/30278 UBUNTU http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-416-1 SUSE http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_79_kernel.html SAID Secunia Advisory: SA24777 Secunia Advisory: SA24482 Secunia Advisory: SA24206 Secunia Advisory: SA22887 Secunia Advisory: SA24098 Secunia Advisory: SA23997 Secunia Advisory: SA25714 Secunia Advisory: SA25691 Secunia Advisory: SA23474 REDHAT http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0014.html MISC http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-14-11-2006.html MANDRIVA http://frontal2.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:078 http://frontal2.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:060 DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1304 CONFIRM http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-063.htm BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/471457

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