CVE-2006-6054: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 4.0. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: version 2.6.0 only; version 2.6.1 only; version 2.6.2 only; version 2.6.3 only; version 2.6.4 only; version 2.6.5 only; …

Published 2006-11-22. Last modified 2026-06-16.