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CVE-2013-3301

Public on 2013-04-29
Modified on 2014-09-15
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.

Severity
Low
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CVSS v3 Base Score
4.4
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 kernel 2013-08-13 21:32 ALAS-2013-218

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 4.4 AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C
NVD CVSSv2 7.2 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C