{"id":"CVE-2013-3301","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.","modified":"2026-04-10T03:43:21.219336Z","published":"2013-04-29T14:55:04Z","related":["SUSE-RU-2015:0621-1","SUSE-SU-2015:0581-1","SUSE-SU-2015:0736-1","SUSE-SU-2015:1174-1","SUSE-SU-2015:1376-1"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6a76f8c0ab19f215af2a3442870eeb5f0e81998d"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-09/msg00003.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00129.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1051.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.8.8"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1834-1"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1835-1"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1836-1"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1838-1"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=952197"},{"type":"ARTICLE","url":"http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.8.8"},{"type":"ARTICLE","url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/15/1"},{"type":"EVIDENCE","url":"https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6a76f8c0ab19f215af2a3442870eeb5f0e81998d"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=952197"}],"schema_version":"1.7.5"}