CVE-2006-5701: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 4.9. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Double free vulnerability in squashfs module in the Linux kernel 2.6.x, as used in Fedora Core 5 and possibly other distributions, allows local users to cause a denial of service by mounting a crafted squashfs filesystem.

Affected products

• 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; …
• Red Hat Fedora Core: version core_5.0 only

Published 2006-11-03. Last modified 2026-06-16.