National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-6057
Original release date:11/22/2006
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.9
Exploitability Subscore:
3.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
- Official Statement from Red Hat (03/14/2007)
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Not Vulnerable. The kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, and 4 do not contain gfs2 filesystem support.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.
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External Source: MISC
Name: http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-15-11-2006.html
Type: Advisory
External Source: XF
Name: kernel-gfs2-dos(30307)
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-416-1
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2006-4556
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 24098
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 22886