CVE-2010-2243

high

Description

A vulnerability exists in kernel/time/clocksource.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.34 where on non-GENERIC_TIME systems (GENERIC_TIME=n), accessing /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/current_clocksource results in an OOPS.

References

Advisories
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https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/06/25/1

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-2243

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2010-2243

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ad6759fbf35d104dbf573cd6f4c6784ad6823f7e

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2019-11-07

Updated: 2019-11-22

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H