CVE-2008-2944 | BDVDB-2026-31294 Detail

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.

Impact#

No impact statement in the source data.

Weaknesses#

No weakness recorded in the source data.

References#

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43556
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449359
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=207002

Exploit#

No public exploit known

History#

Version 12008-06-30Record published in the CVE List.
Version 22024-08-07Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.