CVE-2006-6060 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2006-6060
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Description: The NTFS filesystem code in Linux kernel 2.6.x up to 2.6.18, and possibly other versions, allows local users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a malformed NTFS file stream that triggers an infinite loop in the __find_get_block_slow function.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/30418 SUSE http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_79_kernel.html SAID Secunia Advisory: SA25691 Secunia Advisory: SA25714 Secunia Advisory: SA23474 MISC http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-19-11-2006.html DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1304 BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/471457

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