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USN-1836-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities

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USN-1836-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
04/29/2013
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/08/2014
Modified
09/16/2022

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-3-5-0-225-omap4

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