Bug 130703

Summary:	Linux kernel Perfmon.c Local Denial of service vulnerability [CVE-2006-0558]
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	Dax <gentoomail>
Component:	Kernel	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	gentoomail
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	IA64
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17482/info
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Dax 2006-04-21 02:53:24 UTC

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.

Comment 1 Tavis Ormandy (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-04-21 02:59:54 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 130701 ***