CVE-2006-0558

Linux Kernel - Denial of Service via perfmon mm_struct Race Condition

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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)

Core 11
Core References
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/19737
Third Party Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_vupen
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2554
Third Party Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_vupen
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1444
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry signature x_refsource_oval
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10177
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1103
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://marc.info/?l=linux-ia64&m=113882384921688
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/26709
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0774.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17482
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/20914

Scores

EPSS 0.0041
EPSS Percentile 33.7%

Details

Status published
Products (26)
linux/linux_kernel 2.6.0 (12 CPE variants)
linux/linux_kernel 2.6.1 (3 CPE variants)
linux/linux_kernel 2.6.2
linux/linux_kernel 2.6.3
linux/linux_kernel 2.6.4
linux/linux_kernel 2.6.5
linux/linux_kernel 2.6.6 (2 CPE variants)
linux/linux_kernel 2.6.7 (2 CPE variants)
linux/linux_kernel 2.6.8 (4 CPE variants)
linux/linux_kernel 2.6.9 2.6.20
... and 16 more
Published Apr 14, 2006
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026