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LOW

security flaw

Published Sep 30, 2005

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

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (11)

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Sep 30, 2005
Updated Aug 7, 2024
Reserved Sep 30, 2005
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Important
Public date Mar 28, 2005