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CVE-2010-3079

CVSS v3.1 5.5 (Medium)
55% Progress
CVSS v2.0 4.9 (Medium)
49% Progress
EPSS 0.04 % (5th)
0.04% Progress
Affected Products 5
Advisories 17
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kernel/trace/ftrace.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.35.5, when debugfs is enabled, does not properly handle interaction between mutex possession and llseek operations, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and outage of all function tracing files) via an lseek call on a file descriptor associated with the set_ftrace_filter file.

Weaknesses
CWE-476
NULL Pointer Dereference
CVE Status
PUBLISHED
CNA
Red Hat, Inc.
Published Date
2010-09-30 15:00:02
(14 years ago)
Updated Date
2023-02-13 04:22:04
(19 months ago)

Affected Products

Canonical

Linux

Suse

Configuration #1

    CPE23 From Up To
  Linux Kernel prior 2.6.35.5 version cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel < 2.6.35.5

Configuration #2

    CPE23 From Up To
  Canonical Ubuntu Linux 9.10 cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.10
  Canonical Ubuntu Linux 10.04 cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:*:*:*:-
  Canonical Ubuntu Linux 10.10 cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.10

Configuration #3

    CPE23 From Up To
  Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_desktop:11:-
  Suse Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 11 SP1 cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_high_availability_extension:11:sp1
  Suse Linux Enterprise Server 11 cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_server:11:-