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CVE-2006-6058

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.0 Published: 2006-11-22 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

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 Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

CWE-189

References