VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2008-2944

CVSS score4.9 MEDIUM

EPSS probability0.43%

CISA KEVNot currently listed

Published2008-06-30

Last modified2026-06-16

CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

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.

Weakness classification

CWE-415: Double Free

Primary references

cve@mitre.org — Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.org — Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.org — Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry