CVE-2008-2944

Fedoraproject Fedora Core - Double Free

Title source: rule

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)

[Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=207002

[Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449359

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43556

Scores

EPSS 0.0006

EPSS Percentile 18.0%

Classification

CWE

CWE-415

Status draft

Affected Products (3)

fedoraproject/fedora_core

linux/linux_kernel

redhat/enterprise_linux

Timeline

Published Jun 30, 2008

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026