CVE-2006-0558

perfmon (perfmon.c) in Linux kernel on IA64 architectures allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) by interrupting a task while another process is accessing the mm_struct, which triggers a BUG_ON action in the put_page_testzero function.

Score

CVSS 2.0 4.9 Medium

Status

Modified - bc94ec7e-8909-4cbb-83df-d2fc9330fa88

Published

2006-04-14

Last modified

2024-08-07

Affected products

• Linux Kernel (Linux)

References

• http://marc.info/?l=linux-ia64&m=113882384921688
• http://secunia.com/advisories/19737
• http://secunia.com/advisories/20914
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26709
• http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1103
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0774.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17482
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1444
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2554
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=185082
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10177