CVE-2008-2944: Double Free
First published: Mon Jun 30 2008(Updated: )
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.
Credit: cve@mitre.org
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Redhat Enterprise Linux | =5.0 | |
| Fedoraproject Fedora Core | =6 | |
| Linux Linux kernel | =2.6.18 |
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