CVE-2006-5823 - Quintan Pop

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.

Reference

http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-07-11-2006.html http://secunia.com/advisories/22767 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_79_kernel.html http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-063.htm http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0014.html http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-416-1 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://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/471457 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:047 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:060 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0436.html http://secunia.com/advisories/25630 http://secunia.com/advisories/25691 http://secunia.com/advisories/23474 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1503 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1504 http://secunia.com/advisories/29058 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10588