CVE-2005-3105

Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2005-09-30 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

Linux kernel: 2.6.0

References

http://cache-www.intel.com/cd/00/00/21/57/215792_215792.pdf
http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/cset%404248d4019z8HvgrPAji51TKrWiV2uw?nav=index.html%7Csrc/%7Csrc/mm%7Crelated/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/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11283
http://cache-www.intel.com/cd/00/00/21/57/215792_215792.pdf
http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/cset%404248d4019z8HvgrPAji51TKrWiV2uw?nav=index.html%7Csrc/%7Csrc/mm%7Crelated/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

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