CVE-2010-4171: Systemtap

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The staprun runtime tool in SystemTap 1.3 does not verify that a module to unload was previously loaded by SystemTap, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (unloading of arbitrary kernel modules).

Affected products

• Systemtap Systemtap: version 1.3 only

Published 2010-12-07. Last modified 2026-06-16.