Description (CNA)
The mprotect code (mprotect.c) in Linux 2.6 on Itanium IA64 Montecito processors does not properly maintain cache coherency as required by the architecture, which allows local users to cause a denial of service and possibly corrupt data by modifying PTE protections.
Affected (CNA)
| Vendor / product | Versions |
|---|---|
| n/a / n/a | affected n/a |
CWE
No CWE identifiers supplied.
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18056
- http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/cset%404248d4019z8HvgrPAji51TKrWiV2uw?nav=index.html%7Csrc/%7Csrc/mm%7Crelated/mm/mprotect.c
- http://www.intel.com/cd/ids/developer/asmo-na/eng/215766.htm
- http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-922
- http://cache-www.intel.com/cd/00/00/21/57/215792_215792.pdf
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-514.html
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11283
ADP enrichment
No English description supplied.
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18056
- http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/cset%404248d4019z8HvgrPAji51TKrWiV2uw?nav=index.html%7Csrc/%7Csrc/mm%7Crelated/mm/mprotect.c
- http://www.intel.com/cd/ids/developer/asmo-na/eng/215766.htm
- http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-922
- http://cache-www.intel.com/cd/00/00/21/57/215792_215792.pdf
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-514.html
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11283