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.
References
Link Resource
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
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Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.18:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Information

Published : 2008-06-30 14:41

Updated : 2022-02-07 11:50


NVD link : CVE-2008-2944

Mitre link : CVE-2008-2944


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CWE
CWE-415

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Products Affected

fedoraproject

  • fedora_core

redhat

  • enterprise_linux

linux

  • linux_kernel