CVE-2011-1479

Publication date

2012-06-21 23:00:00

Family

redhat

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.