CVE-2010-3079

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 1
Downstream
RHSA-2010:0842
Modified
Published: 30 Sept 2010, 14:00
Last modified:07 Aug 2024, 02:55

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
low
22/100
CVSS Score
5.5 MEDIUM
v3.1 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.07% LOW
0% probability -0.06%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

30 Sept 2010, 14:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
07 Aug 2024, 02:55
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

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.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.1•MEDIUM•Score: 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 4.9AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.07%• Percentile: 21%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-476•NULL Pointer Dereference

    The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

Affected Systems

  • canonical•ubuntu_linux

    9.10 | 10.04 | 10.10

  • linux•linux_kernel

    < 2.6.35.5

  • suse•linux_enterprise_desktop

    11

  • suse•linux_enterprise_high_availability_extension

    11:sp1

  • suse•linux_enterprise_server

    11

References (11)