CVE-2008-2944

Medium

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS4.9
Exploit probability—
ProductFedoraproject Fedora Core
PublishedJun 30, 2008
First seenJun 30, 2008

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
fedoraproject fedora_core6—
linux linux_kernel2.6.18—
redhat enterprise_linux5.0—

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