130703 – Linux kernel Perfmon.c Local Denial of service vulnerability [CVE-2006-0558]

Bug 130703 - Linux kernel Perfmon.c Local Denial of service vulnerability [CVE-2006-0558]

Summary: Linux kernel Perfmon.c Local Denial of service vulnerability [CVE-2006-0558]

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 130701

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Security
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Kernel (show other bugs)
Hardware:	IA64 Linux

Importance:	High normal
Assignee:	Gentoo Security

URL:	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1748...
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Reported:	2006-04-21 02:53 UTC by Dax
Modified:	2006-04-21 02:59 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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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 ***