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Secunia Advisory SA19737

Linux Kernel perfmon Local Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory SA19737
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Release Date 2006-04-20
   
Popularity 12,849 views
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Criticality level Not criticalNot critical
Impact DoS
Where Local system
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Unpatched
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
Remediation status Secunia VIM
   
Operating System
Linux Kernel 2.6.x

Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2006-0558 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

A vulnerability has been reported in Linux Kernel, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in perfmon (perfmon.c) during exit processing and may cause a crash when a task is interrupted while another process is accessing the "mm_struct" structure.


Solution
Secunia is currently not aware of an official version addressing this.

Provided and/or discovered by
Cliff Wickman

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