VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2010-3079

CVSS score5.5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.39%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2010-09-30
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference

Primary references