CVE-2006-5823 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2006-5823
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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.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: UBUNTU http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-416-1 SUSE http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_79_kernel.html SAID Secunia Advisory: SA24098 Secunia Advisory: SA23997 Secunia Advisory: SA22767 Secunia Advisory: SA24206 Secunia Advisory: SA24259 Secunia Advisory: SA24482 Secunia Advisory: SA25630 Secunia Advisory: SA25691 Secunia Advisory: SA23474 Secunia Advisory: SA29058 REDHAT http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0014.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0436.html MISC http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-07-11-2006.html MANDRIVA http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:060 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:047 DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1504 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1503 CONFIRM http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-063.htm BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/471457

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