Vulnerability Report

CVE-2013-3301

Title: Redhat Enterprise Linux Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2013-3301

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo
Published Date Apr 29, 2013
Modified Date Apr 29, 2026
Exploit Status Available
Score 7.2 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.51%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2013-3301: 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.

Impacted Vendors

L
linux 1
R
redhat 2
U
ubuntu 1
S
suse 3

Reference Links

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6a76f8c0ab19f215af2a3442870eeb5f0e81998d http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-09/msg00003.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00129.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1051.html http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.8.8 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/15/1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1834-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1835-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1836-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1838-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=952197 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6a76f8c0ab19f215af2a3442870eeb5f0e81998d http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6a76f8c0ab19f215af2a3442870eeb5f0e81998d http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-09/msg00003.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00129.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1051.html http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.8.8 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/15/1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1834-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1835-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1836-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1838-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=952197 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6a76f8c0ab19f215af2a3442870eeb5f0e81998d
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
7.2
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2013-3301 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/38465
View Code
MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.