CVE-2006-6057

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.9 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 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 products

Linux kernel: 2.6.0, 2.6.1, 2.6.2, 2.6.3, 2.6.4, 2.6.5 (+98)

References

http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-15-11-2006.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/22886
http://secunia.com/advisories/24098
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-416-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4556
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30307
http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-15-11-2006.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/22886
http://secunia.com/advisories/24098
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-416-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4556
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30307

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