CVE-2013-2930 Information

Description

The perf_trace_event_perm function in kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c in the Linux kernel before 3.12.2 does not properly restrict access to the perf subsystem which allows local users to enable function tracing via a crafted application.

Reference

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=12ae030d54ef250706da5642fc7697cc60ad0df7 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0100.html http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.12.2 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2068-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2070-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2071-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2072-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2074-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2075-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2076-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2112-1 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/12ae030d54ef250706da5642fc7697cc60ad0df7