Denial of Service Vulnerability in Linux Kernel's ftrace Implementation

CVE-2013-3301 · HIGH Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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.

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