CVE-2010-3079

Published: 30 September 2010

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.

From the Ubuntu Security Team

Robert Swiecki discovered that ftrace did not correctly handle mutexes. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the kernel, leading to a denial of service.

Priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package	Release	Status
linux Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	dapper	Does not exist
	hardy	Not vulnerable
	jaunty	Ignored (end of life)
	karmic	Released (2.6.31-22.70)
	lucid	Released (2.6.32-27.49)
	maverick	Released (2.6.35-24.42)
	upstream	Released (2.6.36~rc4)
	Patches: upstream: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=9c55cb12c1c172e2d51e85fbb5a4796ca86b77e7 karmic: http://chinstrap.ubuntu.com/~ogasawara/CVEs/CVE-2010-3079/patches/karmic/linux/0001-tracing-Do-not-allow-llseek-to-set_ftrace_filter.txt lucid: http://chinstrap.ubuntu.com/~ogasawara/CVEs/CVE-2010-3079/patches/lucid/linux/0001-tracing-Do-not-allow-llseek-to-set_ftrace_filter.txt maverick: http://chinstrap.ubuntu.com/~ogasawara/CVEs/CVE-2010-3079/patches/maverick/linux/0001-tracing-Do-not-allow-llseek-to-set_ftrace_filter.txt
linux-ec2 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	dapper	Does not exist
	hardy	Does not exist
	karmic	Released (2.6.31-307.23)
	lucid	Released (2.6.32-311.23)
	maverick	Ignored (end of life)
	upstream	Released (2.6.36~rc4)
linux-fsl-imx51 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	dapper	Does not exist
	hardy	Does not exist
	karmic	Released (2.6.31-112.30)
	lucid	Released (2.6.31-608.22)
	maverick	Does not exist
	upstream	Released (2.6.36~rc4)
linux-lts-backport-maverick Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	dapper	Does not exist
	hardy	Does not exist
	karmic	Does not exist
	lucid	Released (2.6.35-25.44~lucid1)
	maverick	Does not exist
	upstream	Released (2.6.36~rc4)
linux-mvl-dove Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	dapper	Does not exist
	hardy	Does not exist
	karmic	Ignored (end of life)
	lucid	Released (2.6.32-216.33)
	maverick	Released (2.6.32-416.33)
	upstream	Released (2.6.36~rc4)
linux-source-2.6.15 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	dapper	Not vulnerable
	hardy	Does not exist
	jaunty	Does not exist
	karmic	Does not exist
	lucid	Does not exist
	maverick	Does not exist
	upstream	Released (2.6.36~rc4)
linux-ti-omap4 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	dapper	Does not exist
	hardy	Does not exist
	karmic	Does not exist
	lucid	Does not exist
	maverick	Released (2.6.35-903.22)
	upstream	Released (2.6.36~rc4)

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.5
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Bugs

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=631623

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