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CVE-2010-3079
CVE information
Published
Last Modified
CVSSv2.0 Severity
CVSSv3.1 Severity
Impact Analysis
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..
CVSSv2.0 Score
- Severity
- Medium
- Base Score
- 4.9/10
- Exploit Score
- 3.9/10
- Access Vector
- Local
- Access Complexity
- Low
- Authentication Required
- None
- Impact Score
- 6.9/10
- Confidentiality Impact
- None
- Availability Impact
- Complete
- Integrity Impact
- None
CVSSv3.1 Score
- Severity
- Medium
- Base Score
- 5.5/10
- Exploit Score
- 1.8/10
- Access Vector
- Local
- Access Complexity
- Low
- Privileges Required
- Low
- Impact Score
- 3.6/10
- Confidentiality Impact
- None
- Availability Impact
- High
- Integrity Impact
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- User Interaction
- None
Products Affected
CPE | Affected | Vulnerable | Excluding | Edit |
---|---|---|---|---|
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | 2.6.35.5 | |
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:*:*:*:-:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_server:11:-:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_high_availability_extension: |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_desktop:11:-:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - |
References
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.35.5
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=631623
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00003.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0842.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/43684
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0070
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42758
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1041-1
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00000.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0298
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9c55cb12