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CVE-2010-3079

CVE-2010-3079 PUBLISHED

Reported by redhat · Published September 30, 2010

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.

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
n/an/an/a
linuxlinux_kernel
n/an/an/a, n/a, n/a

Timeline

  • Sep 30, 2010 CVE Published
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