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CVE Reference: CVE-2006-0558
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CVE-2006-0558

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.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA19737
  Secunia Advisory: SA20914
  Secunia Advisory: SA26709

REDHAT
  http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0774.html

MLIST
  http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-ia64&m=113882384921688

DEBIAN
  http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1103

CONFIRM

BID
  17482


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