CVE Vulnerability

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.

4.9 /10

CVSS v2.0 :

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 6.9

Attack Vector

Attack Complexity

Privileges Required

User Interaction

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact COMPLETE

Scope

References
Link Resource
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=207002 Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449359 Exploit Issue Tracking
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43556 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
Configurations

Configuration 1

cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.18:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
Information

Published : 2008-06-30 09:41

Updated : 2022-02-07 07:50

NVD link : CVE-2008-2944

Mitre link : CVE-2008-2944

Products Affected

Fedora Core

Fedoraproject

CWE
CWE-415