#VU95586 Resource management errors in Linux kernel - CVE-2006-0558
Published: April 15, 2006 / Updated: October 11, 2017
Vulnerability identifier: #VU95586
Vulnerability risk: Low
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2006-0558
CWE-ID: CWE-399
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Linux kernel
Linux kernel
Software vendor:
Linux Foundation
Linux Foundation
Description
The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
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.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's repository.
External links
- 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