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Bug#365375: marked as done (CVE-2006-0558: Local DoS on IA64)



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Package: linux-2.6
Severity: important
Tags: security

CVE-2006-0558:
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.


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

See also:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=185082


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Version: 2.6.16-1

Upstream says, that this is not longer applicable.

Bastian

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