CVE-2006-6060 Information

Description

The NTFS filesystem code in Linux kernel 2.6.x up to 2.6.18 and possibly other versions allows local users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a malformed NTFS file stream that triggers an infinite loop in the __find_get_block_slow function.

Reference

http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-19-11-2006.html http://secunia.com/advisories/23474 http://secunia.com/advisories/25691 http://secunia.com/advisories/25714 http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1304 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_79_kernel.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/471457 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30418