CVE-2011-1479

Double free vulnerability in the inotify subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via vectors involving failed attempts to create files. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2010-4250.

Score

CVSS 2.0 4.7 Medium

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2012-06-21

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-399

Affected products

• Linux Kernel (Linux)

References

• http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39
• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d0de4dc584ec6aa3b26fffea320a8457827768fc
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/11/1
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691793
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d0de4dc584ec6aa3b26fffea320a8457827768fc