CVE-2006-6054

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2006-11-22 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The ext2 file system code in Linux kernel 2.6.x allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via an ext2 stream with malformed data structures that triggers an error in the ext2_check_page due to a length that is smaller than the minimum.

Affected products

Linux kernel: 2.6.0, 2.6.1, 2.6.2, 2.6.3, 2.6.4, 2.6.5 (+101)

References

http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-12-11-2006.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0014.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0436.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/22837
http://secunia.com/advisories/23474
http://secunia.com/advisories/23997
http://secunia.com/advisories/24098
http://secunia.com/advisories/24206
http://secunia.com/advisories/25630
http://secunia.com/advisories/25691
http://secunia.com/advisories/26379
http://secunia.com/advisories/27528

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