CVE-2006-6060

Publication date 22 November 2006

Last updated 17 July 2025


Ubuntu priority

The NTFS filesystem code in Linux kernel 2.6.x up to 2.6.18, and possibly other versions, allows local users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a malformed NTFS file stream that triggers an infinite loop in the __find_get_block_slow function.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
linux-source-2.6.20 7.04 feisty
Not affected
6.10 edgy Not in release
6.06 LTS dapper Not in release