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CVE-2011-1479: Double Free

First published: Tue Mar 29 2011(Updated: )

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.

Credit: secalert@redhat.com secalert@redhat.com

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.38-rc7
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.38-rc6
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.38-rc4
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.38.3
Linux Linux kernel<=2.6.38.8
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.38-rc3
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.38-rc5
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.38-rc2
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.38.6
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.38.1
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.38-rc1
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.38.5
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.38.2
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.38
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.38-rc8
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.38.4
Linux Linux kernel=2.6.38.7
debian/linux-2.6

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