UBUNTU-CVE-2013-3301

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2013-3301

    Published: 29 Apr 2013Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2013-3301
    Aliases:
    USN-1833-1
    USN-1834-1
    USN-1835-1

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-3301, https://git.kernel.org/linus/6a76f8c0ab19f215af2a3442870eeb5f0e81998d, https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6a76f8c0ab19f215af2a3442870eeb5f0e81998d, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=952197, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/15/1, http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.8.8, http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=6a76f8c0ab19f215af2a3442870eeb5f0e81998d, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1833-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1834-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1835-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1836-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1839-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1838-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-3301

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: linux

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.11.0-12.19

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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