CVE-2006-6056 Information

Description

Linux kernel 2.6.x up to 2.6.18 and possibly other versions when SELinux hooks are enabled allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed file stream that triggers a NULL pointer dereference in the superblock_doinit function as demonstrated using an HFS filesystem image.

Reference

http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-14-11-2006.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0014.html http://secunia.com/advisories/22887 http://secunia.com/advisories/23474 http://secunia.com/advisories/23997 http://secunia.com/advisories/24098 http://secunia.com/advisories/24206 http://secunia.com/advisories/24482 http://secunia.com/advisories/24777 http://secunia.com/advisories/25691 http://secunia.com/advisories/25714 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-063.htm http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1304 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:060 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:078 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_79_kernel.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/471457 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-416-1 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30278 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A9949