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TITLE:
Fedora Core Ext3 File System Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA22776

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/22776/

CRITICAL:
Not critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
Local system

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Fedora Core 6
http://secunia.com/product/12487/

DESCRIPTION:
LMH has reported a vulnerability in Fedora Core, which can be
exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of
Service)

The vulnerability is caused due to an improper handling of corrupted
data structures in the Ext3 file system. This can be exploited to
crash the system or corrupt the file system by mounting and reading a
specially crafted file system image.

SOLUTION:
Do not mount untrusted file systems.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
LMH

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-10-11-2006.html

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