CVE-2013-3301
HIGH severity · CVSS 7.2
7.2CVSS HIGH
Summary
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.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorLocal
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impact—
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)1%
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6a76f8c0ab19f215af2a3442870eeb5f0e81998dAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-09/msg00003.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00129.htmlAdvisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1051.htmlAdvisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.8.8Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/15/1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1834-1Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1835-1Advisory