CVE-2006-6054 - Self induced Holiday

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.

Reference

http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-12-11-2006.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/22837 http://secunia.com/advisories/24098 http://secunia.com/advisories/24206 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/471457 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-404.htm http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0436.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0673.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0672.html http://secunia.com/advisories/25630 http://secunia.com/advisories/25691 http://secunia.com/advisories/23474 http://secunia.com/advisories/26379 http://secunia.com/advisories/27528 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1503 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1504 http://secunia.com/advisories/29058 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4487 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30201 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10006