Name | CVE-2006-6053 |
Description | The ext3fs_dirhash function in Linux kernel 2.6.x allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via an ext3 stream with malformed data structures. |
Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
References | DSA-1304, DSA-1503-1, DSA-1503-2 |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Mounting filesystem partitions should be limited to root