CVE-2006-0558

CVE-2006-0558 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

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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