NVD - CVE-2006-0558

CVE-2006-0558 Detail

Modified

This vulnerability has been modified since it was last analyzed by the NVD. It is awaiting reanalysis which may result in further changes to the information provided.

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.

Source: MITRE
Description Last Modified: 04/14/2006

Impact

CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.9 MEDIUM
Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C) (V2 legend)
Impact Subscore: 6.9
Exploitability Subscore: 3.9

Access Vector (AV): Local
Access Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (AU): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Complete
Additional Information:
Allows disruption of service

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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Hyperlink	Resource
http://marc.info/?l=linux-ia64&m=113882384921688
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

References to Check Content

Identifier:: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10177
Check System:: http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5
Hyperlink:: http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10177

Technical Details

Vulnerability Type (View All)

Other (NVD-CWE-Other)

Vulnerable software and versions Switch to CPE 2.2

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2006-0558
NVD Published Date:
04/14/2006
NVD Last Modified:
10/10/2017

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CVE-2006-0558 Detail

Description

Impact

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

References to Check Content

Technical Details

Vulnerable software and versions Switch to CPE 2.2

Change History

CVE Modified by MITRE - 10/10/2017 9:30:38 PM

CVE Translated - 10/18/2016 11:45:02 PM

CVE Modified by Source - 10/17/2016 11:39:03 PM

Initial CVE Analysis - 4/17/2006 9:12:00 AM

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