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CVE-2010-4171

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-4171 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the staprun runtime tool within SystemTap 1.3. The tool fails to verify if a module intended for unloading was previously loaded by SystemTap, allowing local users to unload arbitrary kernel modules. This vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.1, indicating a local attack vector with low complexity and a partial impact on availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:systemtap:systemtap:1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.1LOW

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.40%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
32.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0040 is in the 54th percentile among its peer group of 2,096 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.6 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: systemtap-0:1.1-3.el5_5.3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: systemtap-0:1.2-11.el6_0
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2010-4171Low

Systemtap: Ability to remove unused modules by unprivileged user

Nov 17, 2010

References

lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/051115.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/051122.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/051127.html
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/42256
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/42263
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/42318
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/46920
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/63345
sources.redhat.com / git/gitweb.cgi
sources.redhat.com / ml/systemtap/2010-q4/msg00230.html
debian.org / security/2011/dsa-2348
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2010-0894.html
securityfocus.com / bid/44917
securitytracker.com / id