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CVE-2006-6060

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

Description

The NTFS filesystem code in Linux kernel 2.6.x up to 2.6.18, and possibly other versions, allows local users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a malformed NTFS file stream that triggers an infinite loop in the __find_get_block_slow function.

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References