CVE-2006-0558

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.9 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: none known
Published: 2006-04-14 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

Linux kernel: 2.6.0, 2.6.0-test1, 2.6.0-test10, 2.6.0-test11, 2.6.0-test2, 2.6.0-test3 (+74)

References

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/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10177
http://marc.info/?l=linux-ia64&m=113882384921688

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