#VU95266 Resource exhaustion in Linux kernel - CVE-2006-6060 

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#VU95266 Resource exhaustion in Linux kernel - CVE-2006-6060

Published: November 22, 2006 / Updated: July 20, 2017


Vulnerability identifier: #VU95266
Vulnerability risk: Low
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2006-6060
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Linux kernel
Software vendor:
Linux Foundation

Description

The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

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.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's repository.

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