Security Advisory

CVE-2005-3105

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2005-09-30 04:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 23:01:57
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

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.