CVE-2006-0558

CVE Details

Release Date:2006-04-14
Impact:Important What is this?

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


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


CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score: 4.9
Vector String: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Version: 2.0
Attack Vector: Local
Attack Complexity: Low
Authentication: None
Confidentiality Impact: None
Integrity Impact: None
Availability Impact: Complete

Errata information


PlatformErrataRelease Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (kernel)ELSA-2007-07742007-09-05
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (ocfs2-2.6.9-55.0.6.0.1.EL)ELSA-2007-07742007-09-05
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (oracleasm-2.6.9-55.0.6.0.1.EL)ELSA-2007-07742007-09-05


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