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UDF truncating issue

Published Aug 21, 2006

Description

The Universal Disk Format (UDF) filesystem driver in Linux kernel 2.6.17 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service (hang and crash) via certain operations involving truncated files, as demonstrated via the dd command.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

Weaknesses (1)

References (28)

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Aug 21, 2006
Updated Aug 7, 2024
Reserved Aug 15, 2006
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Low
Public date Jun 16, 2006