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CVE-2013-3301

Published: Apr 29, 2013

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

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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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.8.8

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vendor-advisory

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https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6a76f8c0ab19f215af2a3442870eeb5f0e81998d

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vendor-advisory

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SUSE-SU-2013:1473

vendor-advisory

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[oss-security] 20130415 CVE request - Linux kernel: tracing NULL pointer dereference

mailing-list

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vendor-advisory

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http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6a76f8c0ab19f215af2a3442870eeb5f0e81998d

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vendor-advisory

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openSUSE-SU-2013:1971

vendor-advisory

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vendor-advisory

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=952197

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