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CVE-2006-5823

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.0 Published: 2006-11-09 Modified: 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 Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References