Vulnerability Details CVE-2008-2944
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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.001
EPSS Ranking 18.6%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v2 Score 4.9
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=207002
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449359
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43556
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=207002
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449359
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43556
Products affected by CVE-2008-2944
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cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:6
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.18
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cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5.0