CVE - CVE-2013-3301

CVE-ID
CVE-2013-3301	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
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.
References
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MLIST:[oss-security] 20130415 CVE request - Linux kernel: tracing NULL pointer dereference URL:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/15/1 CONFIRM:http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=6a76f8c0ab19f215af2a3442870eeb5f0e81998d CONFIRM:http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.8.8 CONFIRM:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=952197 CONFIRM:https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6a76f8c0ab19f215af2a3442870eeb5f0e81998d REDHAT:RHSA-2013:1051 URL:http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1051.html SUSE:SUSE-SU-2013:1473 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-09/msg00003.html SUSE:openSUSE-SU-2013:1971 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00129.html UBUNTU:USN-1834-1 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1834-1 UBUNTU:USN-1835-1 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1835-1 UBUNTU:USN-1836-1 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1836-1 UBUNTU:USN-1838-1 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1838-1
Assigning CNA
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Date Entry Created
20130428	Disclaimer: The entry creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20130428)
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