Security Advisory

CVE-2008-2944

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2008-06-30 21:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 09:21:34
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

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.