CVE-2008-2944 (GCVE-0-2008-2944)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-06-30 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 09:21
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
3 references
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|---|---|
| https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… | vdb-entryx_refsource_XF |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449359 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=207002 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
Date Public
2008-06-26 00:00
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