Double free in Linux kernel - CVE-2008-2944

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Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU92856

Double free in Linux kernel - CVE-2008-2944

Published: July 1, 2008 / Updated: February 7, 2022


Vulnerability identifier: #VU92856
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2008-2944
CWE-ID: CWE-415
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Linux Foundation
Affected software:
Linux kernel

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

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.


How to mitigate CVE-2008-2944

Install update from vendor's repository.

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