CVE-2010-2243

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.

• CWE-20

• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2010-2243Third Party Advisory
• https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ad6759fbf35d104dbf573cd6f4c6784ad6823f7eMailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-2243Third Party Advisory
• https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/06/25/1Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2010-2243Third Party Advisory
• https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ad6759fbf35d104dbf573cd6f4c6784ad6823f7eMailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-2243Third Party Advisory
• https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/06/25/1Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory

Published

Nov 7, 2019

Last Modified

Jun 16, 2026

Status

Modified

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