VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2006-6057

CVSS score4.9 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.49%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2006-11-22
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

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.

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