Integer overflow in Linux kernel - CVE-2006-6058

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Integer overflow in Linux kernel - CVE-2006-6058

Published: November 22, 2006 / Updated: October 30, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU95225
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2006-6058
CWE-ID: CWE-190
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

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

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.


Affected software

Linux kernel
Ubuntu
linux-source-2.6.15 (Ubuntu package)

How to mitigate CVE-2006-6058

Install update from vendor's repository.

linux-source-2.6.15 (Ubuntu package) - update to 2.6.15-51.66

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