CVE-2005-3105

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.

Date published : 2005-09-30

http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/cset@4248d4019z8HvgrPAji51TKrWiV2uw?nav=index.html%7Csrc/%7Csrc/mm%7Crelated/mm/mprotect.c

http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-922