CVE-2006-6056

CVE-2006-6056 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

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.

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