VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2013-3301

CVSS score7.2 HIGH
EPSS probability0.98%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2013-04-29
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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.

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