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CVE-2006-0558

perfmon (perfmon.c) in Linux kernel on IA64 architectures allows local users to cause a denial of...

4.9 Medium

CVE-2006-0558 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 4.9) in Linux Kernel, published April 14, 2006. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.42%, the 36th percentile. No source names a fixed version.

Severity
4.9 MediumCVSS 2.0, NVD
Exploit chance
0.42%EPSS, 36th percentile
Exploitation
None knownNot on CISA’s or ENISA’s lists
Fixed in
No fix listedNo source names one

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.

Exploit likelihood

0.42%Down 0.9 points since Feb 4, 2022
90%50%10%1%

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
kernel-source-2.6.8
Debian:3.1
From an advisory covering 24 CVEs
before 2.6.8-16sarge3, plus listed versions
2.6.8-162.6.8-16sarge12.6.8-16sarge2
2.6.8-16sarge3
kernel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
kernel-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
kernel-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
kernel-doc
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
kernel-hugemem
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
kernel-hugemem-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
kernel-largesmp
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
kernel-largesmp-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
kernel-smp
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
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Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
kernel-smp-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
kernel-xenU
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
kernel-xenU-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
kernel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
kernel-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
kernel-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
kernel-doc
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
kernel-hugemem
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
kernel-hugemem-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
kernel-largesmp
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
kernel-largesmp-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
kernel-smp
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
kernel-smp-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
kernel-xenU
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
kernel-xenU-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
kernel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
kernel-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
kernel-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
kernel-doc
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
kernel-hugemem
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
kernel-hugemem-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
kernel-largesmp
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
kernel-largesmp-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
kernel-smp
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
kernel-smp-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
kernel-xenU
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
kernel-xenU-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
kernel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
kernel-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
kernel-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
kernel-doc
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
kernel-hugemem
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
kernel-hugemem-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
kernel-largesmp
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
kernel-largesmp-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
kernel-smp
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
kernel-smp-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
kernel-xenU
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
kernel-xenU-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
0:2.6.9-55.0.6.EL

What each source reports

NVD Score used4.9

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.

Record
CVE-2006-0558
CVSS 2.0
4.9 MediumAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Updated
2026-11-02
CVE ListNo score

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.

Record
CVE-2006-0558
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2006-0565No score

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.

Record
EUVD-2006-0565
Updated
2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-8w7f-mj6p-q97mNo score

perfmon (perfmon.c) in Linux kernel on IA64 architectures allows local users to cause a denial of...

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.

Record
GHSA-8w7f-mj6p-q97m
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVBELL-CVE-2006-05584.9

CVE-2006-0558 does not affect BellSoft software

Record
BELL-CVE-2006-0558
CVSS 2.0
4.9 MediumAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Updated
2026-11-02

History

History
RecordedChangedSources
affected, facts
aliasesEUVD
first indexedCVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV

Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.

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