CVE-2008-2944

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-415 Double Free

Publication date:

30/06/2008

Last modified:

09/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.90 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0

4.90

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:6:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.18:-::::::
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5.0:::::::*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CVE-2008-2944

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools