CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-2944
4.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-06-30
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-415
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• fedoraproject fedora core 6
• linux linux kernel 2.6.18
• redhat enterprise linux 5.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-415 Double Free weakness
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=207002 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449359 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43556 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=207002 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449359 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43556 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry