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Tracker / CVE-2010-3079

CVE-2010-3079

Medium 5.5

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 and versions

canonical ubuntu_linux
linux linux_kernel · … → 2.6.35.5
suse linux_enterprise_desktop
suse linux_enterprise_high_availability_extension
suse linux_enterprise_server

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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