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CVE-2008-2944

Exploit

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.

Data is provided by the National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
Fedoraproject ≫ Fedora Core Version6
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version2.6.18 Update-
Redhat ≫ Enterprise Linux Version5.0
Zu dieser CVE wurde keine CISA KEV oder CERT.AT-Warnung gefunden.
EPSS Metriken
Type Source Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.06% 0.151
CVSS Metriken
Source Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector string
nvd@nist.gov 4.9 3.9 6.9
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
CWE-415 Double Free

The product calls free() twice on the same memory address, potentially leading to modification of unexpected memory locations.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449359
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