| Name | CVE-2006-6054 |
| 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. |
| 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-1503-1, DSA-1503-2, DSA-1504-1 |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Mounting filesystem partitions should be limited to root