CVEvulnerability
CVE-2010-3079
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2010-09-30
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 2.6.35.5)
• canonical ubuntu linux 9.10
• canonical ubuntu linux 10.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 10.10
• suse linux enterprise desktop 11
• suse linux enterprise high availability extension 11
• suse linux enterprise server 11
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9c55cb12c1c172e2d51e85fbb5a4796ca86b77e7 git.kernel.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00003.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00000.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42758 Broken Link
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.35.5 Broken Link
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0842.html Broken Link
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/43684 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1041-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0070 Broken Link
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0298 Broken Link
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=631623 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9c55cb12c1c172e2d51e85fbb5a4796ca86b77e7 git.kernel.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00003.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00000.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42758 Broken Link
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.35.5 Broken Link
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0842.html Broken Link
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/43684 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1041-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0070 Broken Link
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0298 Broken Link
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=631623 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory