CVE-2006-0558 Information

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.

Reference

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/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10177