CVE-2008-2944

Double free vulnerability in the utrace support in the Linux kernel, probably 2.6.18, in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 and Fedora Core 6 (FC6) allows local users to cause a denial of service (oops), as demonstrated by a crash when running the GNU GDB testsuite, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-2365.

Score

CVSS 2.0 4.9 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2008-06-30

Last modified

2024-08-07

Weaknesses

CWE-415

Affected products

• Fedora Core (Fedoraproject)
• Linux Kernel (Linux)
• Enterprise Linux (Redhat)

References

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=207002
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449359
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43556