Bug 158789

Summary:	Linux 2.6.x NTFS __find_get_block_slow() denial of service (CVE-2006-6060)
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	Daniel Drake (RETIRED) <dsd>
Component:	Kernel	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-19-11-2006.html
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Daniel Drake (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-12-21 18:57:54 UTC

The NTFS filesystem module of the Linux 2.6.x kernel fails to properly handle corrupted data structures, leading to an exploitable denial of service condition. This issue is similar to that explained in MOKB-05-11-2006.

Comment 1 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-12-26 05:05:07 UTC

Eric Sandeen suggests that this is the same bug manifesting in different filesystems.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 158782 ***