NULL pointer dereference in Linux kernel - CVE-2013-3301
Published: July 3, 2024
Vulnerability identifier: #VU93711
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-3301
CWE-ID: CWE-476
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
Public exploit is available
Vendor: Linux Foundation
Affected software:
Linux kernel
Linux kernel
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a local user to execute arbitrary code.
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.
How to mitigate CVE-2013-3301
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.8.8
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/15/1
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6a76f8c0ab19f215af2a3442870eeb5f0e81998d
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=952197
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1836-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1834-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1838-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1835-1
- 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://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6a76f8c0ab19f215af2a3442870eeb5f0e81998d