CVE-2006-6053 - Soft spoken Insulation

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.

Reference

http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-10-11-2006.html http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_79_kernel.html http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-063.htm http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0014.html http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-416-1 http://secunia.com/advisories/23997 http://secunia.com/advisories/24100 http://secunia.com/advisories/22776 http://secunia.com/advisories/24098 http://secunia.com/advisories/24206 http://secunia.com/advisories/24482 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/471457 http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1304 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:040 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:060 http://secunia.com/advisories/25714 http://secunia.com/advisories/25691 http://secunia.com/advisories/23474 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1503 http://secunia.com/advisories/29058 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4458 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10992