Candidate: CVE-2006-5701 References: http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-02-11-2006.html http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=31007759&forum_id=39601 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211237 Description: 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. Ubuntu-Description: Certain corrupted squashfs file system images caused a memory allocation to be freed twice. By mounting a specially crafted squashfs file system, a local attacker could exploit this to crash the kernel. Notes: Ubuntu kernels have squashfs patch; not sure about Debian's. dannf> Debian's do not, but we do have a kernel-patch-squashfs package dannf> Marking upstream N/A, because this isn't an upstream feature dannf> Affects squashfs (1:3.1r2-6) which is currently in etch. I've Verified that the patch in RH bugzilla applies and fixes the bug. dannf> kernel-patch-squashfs applied to a 2.4 kernel does not exhibit this problem. I tested by hexediting the reproducer fs to advertise v2 since v3 is not supported in sarge, which may have just masked the problem. dannf> Released in squashfs (1:3.1r2-6.1) which is in etch Bugs: upstream: N/A linux-2.6: N/A 2.6.18-etch-security: N/A 2.6.8-sarge-security: N/A 2.4.27-sarge-security: N/A 2.6.12-breezy-security: N/A 2.6.15-dapper-security: released (2.6.15-27.49) 2.6.17-edgy-security: released (2.6.17.1-10.34)