CVEvulnerability
CVE-2013-3301
7.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2013-04-29
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Description
The ftrace implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.8.8 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging the CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability for write access to the (1) set_ftrace_pid or (2) set_graph_function file, and then making an lseek system call.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.1 < 3.2.44)
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.3 < 3.4.49)
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.5 < 3.8.8)
• redhat enterprise linux 6.0
• redhat enterprise mrg 2.0
• suse linux enterprise desktop 11
• suse linux enterprise high availability extension 11
• suse linux enterprise server 11
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6a76f8c0ab19f215af2a3442870eeb5f0e81998d Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-09/msg00003.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00129.html Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1051.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.8.8 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/15/1 Mailing List
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1834-1 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1835-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1836-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1838-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=952197 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6a76f8c0ab19f215af2a3442870eeb5f0e81998d Exploit
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6a76f8c0ab19f215af2a3442870eeb5f0e81998d Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-09/msg00003.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00129.html Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1051.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.8.8 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/15/1 Mailing List
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1834-1 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1835-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1836-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1838-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=952197 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6a76f8c0ab19f215af2a3442870eeb5f0e81998d Exploit