cve/2010/CVE-2010-2243.md

### [CVE-2010-2243](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-2243)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Product&message=linux-2.6&color=blue)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Version&message=%3D%20before%202.6.33%20&color=brighgreen)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Vulnerability&message=oops&color=brighgreen)

### 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.

### POC

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

#### Github
No PoCs found on GitHub currently.