CVE-2006-6058

Publication date 22 November 2006

Last updated 17 July 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Description

The minix filesystem code in Linux kernel 2.6.x before 2.6.24, including 2.6.18, allows local users to cause a denial of service (hang) via a malformed minix file stream that triggers an infinite loop in the minix_bmap function. NOTE: this issue might be due to an integer overflow or signedness error.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
linux-source-2.6.15 6.06 LTS dapper
Fixed 2.6.15-51.66
linux-source-2.6.17 6.10 edgy
Fixed 2.6.17.1-12.42
linux-source-2.6.20 7.04 feisty
Fixed 2.6.20-16.33

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

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    • USN-578-1
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    • 14 February 2008
    • USN-558-1
    • Linux kernel vulnerabilities
    • 19 December 2007

Other references