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CVE Reference: CVE-2006-6058

NOTE: The text on this page is written by CVE MITRE and reflects neither the opinions of Secunia or the results of our research. All data on this page is written and maintained by CVE MITRE.

Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2006-6058

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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