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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…
- 4.9MediumCVSS base score
- 0.42%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 64% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By sgi
- 2 months later
· 2 months later
Published
- 18 years later
· 18 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.9 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.42% · top 64% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.9.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
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- 19737 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2006-2554 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- ADV-2006-1444 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10177 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- DSA-1103 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- [linux-ia64] [PATCH 1/1] ia64: perfmon.c trips BUG_ON in put_page_testzero (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 26709 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- RHSA-2007:0774 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=185082 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 17482 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20914 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2006-0565 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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