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CVE-2010-3079

Published: Sep 30, 2010

Modified: Aug 7, 2024

PUBLISHED

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.

VendorProductVersions

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affected
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References

USN-1041-1
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_UBUNTU
SUSE-SA:2011:007
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_SUSE
RHSA-2010:0842
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_REDHAT
ADV-2011-0298
vdb-entry
x_refsource_VUPEN
SUSE-SA:2010:050
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_SUSE
42758
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
43684
vdb-entry
x_refsource_BID
ADV-2011-0070
vdb-entry
x_refsource_VUPEN

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