CVE-2006-5823: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 4.0. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 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; …

Published 2006-11-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.