Linux kernel 2.6.x up to 2.6.18 and possibly other versions, when SELinux hooks are enabled, allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed file stream that triggers a NULL pointer dereference in the superblock_doinit function, as demonstrated using an HFS filesystem image.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2006-11-22T01:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T20:12:31.454Z

Reserved: 2006-11-21T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2006-6056

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2006-11-22T01:07:00.000

Modified: 2017-10-11T01:31:24.110

Link: CVE-2006-6056

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2006-11-14T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2006-6056 - Bugzilla