CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-1479
4.7 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-06-21
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.7 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (<= 2.6.38.8)
• linux linux kernel 2.6.38
• linux linux kernel 2.6.38.1
• linux linux kernel 2.6.38.2
• linux linux kernel 2.6.38.3
• linux linux kernel 2.6.38.4
• linux linux kernel 2.6.38.5
• linux linux kernel 2.6.38.6
• linux linux kernel 2.6.38.7
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39 ftp.osuosl.org
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d0de4dc584ec6aa3b26fffea320a8457827768fc git.kernel.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/11/1 www.openwall.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691793 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d0de4dc584ec6aa3b26fffea320a8457827768fc Exploit, Patch
- http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39 ftp.osuosl.org
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d0de4dc584ec6aa3b26fffea320a8457827768fc git.kernel.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/11/1 www.openwall.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691793 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d0de4dc584ec6aa3b26fffea320a8457827768fc Exploit, Patch