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CVE-2006-6056

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.9 Published: 2006-11-22 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Linux kernel 2.6.x up to 2.6.18 and possibly other versions, when SELinux hooks are enabled, allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed file stream that triggers a NULL pointer dereference in the superblock_doinit function, as demonstrated using an HFS filesystem image.

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References