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CVE-2006-6057

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

Description

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.

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References