SOC status:Duty analyst on shift

UK Cyber Defence
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

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.