CVE-2010-3079 vulnerability in Canonical and Other Products
Published on September 30, 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.
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Exploit Probability
EPSS
0.12%
Percentile
31.42%
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