cve-2008-2944
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2008-06-30 21:00
Modified
2024-08-07 09:21
Severity ?
Summary
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
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=207002Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449359Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43556Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=207002Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449359Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43556Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
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