VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2006-0558

CVSS score4.9 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.42%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2006-04-14
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

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.

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