Description
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 products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
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 ↗