CVE-2006-5823

CVE-2006-5823 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:H/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

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.

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