Security Advisory

CVE-2011-1479

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2012-06-21 23:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 22:28:41
Assigner redhat
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

Double free vulnerability in the inotify subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via vectors involving failed attempts to create files. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2010-4250.