FKIE_CVE-2013-3301
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2013-04-29 14:55 - Updated: 2026-06-16 23:54
Severity
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.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel | * | |
| linux | linux_kernel | * | |
| linux | linux_kernel | * | |
| redhat | enterprise_linux | 6.0 | |
| redhat | enterprise_mrg | 2.0 | |
| suse | linux_enterprise_desktop | 11 | |
| suse | linux_enterprise_high_availability_extension | 11 | |
| suse | linux_enterprise_server | 11 | |
| suse | linux_enterprise_server | 11 |
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