CVEvulnerability
CVE-2010-2243
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-11-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
A vulnerability exists in kernel/time/clocksource.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.34 where on non-GENERIC_TIME systems (GENERIC_TIME=n), accessing /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/current_clocksource results in an OOPS.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 2.6.33)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2010-2243 Third Party Advisory
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ad6759fbf35d104dbf573cd6f4c6784ad6823f7e Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-2243 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/06/25/1 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2010-2243 Third Party Advisory
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ad6759fbf35d104dbf573cd6f4c6784ad6823f7e Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-2243 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/06/25/1 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory