CVE-2006-6060

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 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 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-19-11-2006.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/23474
http://secunia.com/advisories/25691
http://secunia.com/advisories/25714
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1304
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_79_kernel.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/471457
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30418
http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-19-11-2006.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/23474
http://secunia.com/advisories/25691
http://secunia.com/advisories/25714

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