CVE-2006-6058

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2006-11-17
Bugzilla:
217007: CVE-2006-6058 minix_bmap denial of service

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2006-6058 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 (kernel) RHSA-2007:0672 2007-08-08

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