Vulnerability Report

CVE-2010-3079

Title: Canonical Ubuntu Linux Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2010-3079.

CWE Category CWE-476
Published Date Sep 30, 2010
Modified Date Apr 29, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 5.5 CVSS v3.1
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.07%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2010-3079: 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.

Impacted Vendors

L
linux 1
U
ubuntu 2
C
canonical 1
S
suse 3

Reference Links

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9c55cb12c1c172e2d51e85fbb5a4796ca86b77e7 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00003.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00000.html http://secunia.com/advisories/42758 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.35.5 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0842.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/43684 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1041-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0070 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0298 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=631623 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9c55cb12c1c172e2d51e85fbb5a4796ca86b77e7 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00003.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00000.html http://secunia.com/advisories/42758 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.35.5 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0842.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/43684 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1041-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0070 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0298 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=631623
CVSS v3.1
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
5.5
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
NONE
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
UNCHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
4.9
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2010-3079 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector LOCAL
Complexity LOW
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.