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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.

  • Published: Jun 30, 2008
  • Updated: Apr 13, 2023
  • CVE: CVE-2008-2944
  • Severity: Low
  • Exploit:

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: Low
  • Score: 4.9
  • AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CWEs:

Software From Fixed in
redhat / enterprise_linux 5.0 5.0.x
fedoraproject / fedora_core 6 6.x
linux / linux_kernel 2.6.18 2.6.18.x