CVE-2006-5823

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-11-09 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The zlib_inflate function in Linux kernel 2.6.x allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed filesystem that uses zlib compression that triggers memory corruption, as demonstrated using cramfs.

Affected products

Linux kernel: 2.6.0, 2.6.0-test1, 2.6.0-test10, 2.6.0-test11, 2.6.0-test2, 2.6.0-test3 (+187)

References

http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-07-11-2006.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0014.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0436.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/22767
http://secunia.com/advisories/23474
http://secunia.com/advisories/23997
http://secunia.com/advisories/24098
http://secunia.com/advisories/24206
http://secunia.com/advisories/24259
http://secunia.com/advisories/24482
http://secunia.com/advisories/25630
http://secunia.com/advisories/25691

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