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.
References (3)
Core 3
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
x_refsource_xf
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43556
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449359
Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=207002
Scores
EPSS
0.0043
EPSS Percentile
34.0%
Details
CWE
CWE-415
Status
published
Products (3)
fedoraproject/fedora_core
6
linux/linux_kernel
2.6.18
redhat/enterprise_linux
5.0
Published
Jun 30, 2008
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026