CVE-2008-2944

CWE-4155 documents5 sources
Severity
4.9MEDIUM
EPSS
0.1%
top 81.67%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
Fedoraproject Fedora CoreLinux Linux KernelRedhat Enterprise Linux
Timeline
PublishedJun 30
Latest updateMay 1

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.

CVSS vector

AV:L/AC:L/C:N/I:N/A:CExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 6.9

Affected Packages2 packages

▶NVDlinux/linux_kernel2.6.18

Also affects: Enterprise Linux 5.0

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-hqv4-9647-qxr5: Double free vulnerability in the utrace support in the Linux kernel, probably 2↗2022-05-01
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CVEList
CVE-2008-2944: Double free vulnerability in the utrace support in the Linux kernel, probably 2↗2008-06-30
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Red Hat
crash - mmput()/unmap_vmas() - gdb testsuite↗2006-09-18
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2008-2944 crash - mmput()/unmap_vmas() - gdb testsuite↗2008-07-07
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CVE-2008-2944 (MEDIUM CVSS 4.9) | Double free vulnerability in the ut | cvebase.io