CVE-2006-0558

Linux Kernel - Denial of Service

Title source: rule

Description

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.

References (11)

[Mailing List] http://marc.info/?l=linux-ia64&m=113882384921688

[Issue Tracking] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=185082

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0774.html

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17482

[Third Party Advisory] http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1103

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10177

[Third Party Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/19737

[Third Party Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/20914

[Third Party Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/26709

[Third Party Advisory] http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1444

[Third Party Advisory] http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2554

Scores

EPSS 0.0005

EPSS Percentile 14.6%

Classification

Status draft

Affected Products (50)

linux/linux_kernel

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Timeline

Published Apr 14, 2006

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026