CVE-2005-3105 Information

Description

The mprotect code (mprotect.c) in Linux 2.6 on Itanium IA64 Montecito processors does not properly maintain cache coherency as required by the architecture which allows local users to cause a denial of service and possibly corrupt data by modifying PTE protections.

Reference

http://cache-www.intel.com/cd/00/00/21/57/215792_215792.pdf http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/cset@4248d4019z8HvgrPAji51TKrWiV2uw?nav=index.html|src/|src/mm|related/mm/mprotect.c http://secunia.com/advisories/18056 http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-922 http://www.intel.com/cd/ids/developer/asmo-na/eng/215766.htm http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-514.html https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A11283