CVE-2005-2459: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 4.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The huft_build function in inflate.c in the zlib routines in the Linux kernel before 2.6.12.5 returns the wrong value, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (kernel crash) via a certain compressed file that leads to a null pointer dereference, a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-2458.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 3.1 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: version 2.6.0 only; version 2.6.1 only; version 2.6.2 only; version 2.6.3 only; version 2.6.4 only; version 2.6.5 only; …

Published 2005-08-23. Last modified 2026-06-16.