VulnerabilityModified
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.
MEDIUM 4.9EPSS 0.41%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.41%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
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.
- CVSS 2.0
- 4.9 MEDIUMAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- EPSS
- 0.41% probability · 34th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Affected
- linux/linux kernel
- Source
- bc94ec7e-8909-4cbb-83df-d2fc9330fa88
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
- 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
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.