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.
Published: 2006-04-14
Score: 4.9 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1103-1 New Linux kernel 2.6.8 packages fix several vulnerabilities
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2006-0565 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.
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Linux Linux Kernel
Redhat Enterprise Linux
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: sgi

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T16:41:28.970Z

Reserved: 2006-02-06T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2006-0558

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Status : Modified

Published: 2006-04-14T21:02:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2006-0558

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Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2006-02-01T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2006-0558 - Bugzilla

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