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CVE-2008-2944

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.9 Published: 2008-06-30 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux KernelRedhat Enterprise LinuxFedoraproject Fedora Core

Weakness Type

CWE-415

References