CVE-2010-3079 Null dereference in n/a

What is CVE-2010-3079?

CVE-2010-3079 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 30 Sep 2010. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official 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: CWE-476

Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-3079?

It affects 5 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Linux kernel, Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop, Suse Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension, Suse Linux Enterprise Server.

How do I fix CVE-2010-3079?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2010-3079 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2010-3079 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-24rh-37mj-9hr5.