Vulnerability CVE-2008-2944
Published: 2008-06-30   Modified: 2012-02-12

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.

Type:

CWE-noinfo

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.9/10
6.9/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Complete
Affected software
Red hat -> Enterprise linux kernel 
Red hat -> Fedora core 

 References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449359
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=207002
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/43556
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