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CVE-2006-6057

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The Linux kernel 2.6.x up to 2.6.18, and possibly other versions, on Fedora Core 6 and possibly other operating systems, allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed gfs2 file stream that triggers a NULL pointer dereference in the init_journal function.

Find out more about CVE-2006-6057 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

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Not Vulnerable. The kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, and 4 do not contain gfs2 filesystem support.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.

Last Modified 2018-04-27T01:26:37+00:00

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