CVE-2006-6058 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2006-6058
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Description: The minix filesystem code in Linux kernel 2.6.x before 2.6.24, including 2.6.18, allows local users to cause a denial of service (hang) via a malformed minix file stream that triggers an infinite loop in the minix_bmap function. NOTE: this issue might be due to an integer overflow or signedness error.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: UBUNTU http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-558-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-578-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-574-1 SUSE http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_59_kernel.html SAID Secunia Advisory: SA27614 Secunia Advisory: SA23034 Secunia Advisory: SA27528 Secunia Advisory: SA26379 Secunia Advisory: SA27703 Secunia Advisory: SA28141 Secunia Advisory: SA28654 Secunia Advisory: SA28706 Secunia Advisory: SA28170 Secunia Advisory: SA28971 Secunia Advisory: SA29058 REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0672.html MISC http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-17-11-2006.html MANDRIVA http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:008 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:112 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:232 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:226 DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1504 http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1436 CONFIRM http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.24 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-404.htm

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