CVE-2006-0558

CVE Details

Release Date:

2006-04-14

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.

See more information about CVE-2006-0558 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

CVSS v2.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	4.9	Base Metrics:	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Access Vector:	Local network	Attack Complexity:	Low
Authentication:	None required	Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	None	Availability Impact:	Complete

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (kernel)	ELSA-2007-0774	2007-09-05
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (ocfs2-2.6.9-55.0.6.0.1.EL)	ELSA-2007-0774	2007-09-05
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (oracleasm-2.6.9-55.0.6.0.1.EL)	ELSA-2007-0774	2007-09-05

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