CVE-2006-6057 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-15-11-2006.html http://secunia.com/advisories/22886 http://secunia.com/advisories/24098 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-416-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4556 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30307