CVE-2006-6060

CVE-2006-6060 · MEDIUM Severity

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

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.

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